Poetry. Gay/Lesbian Studies. The twenty-three prose poems of HANDS-ON SAINTS create a revisionist hagiography. A chalice crafted of lesser metals, a taste of redemption in an unlikely mixture of sacred and profane. Saints outside the canon, unbeatified and bruised, coarse and clueless, deserving of heaven for their very flaws; as well as authorized saints, who offer dubious rewards at a terrible cost. An occasion of grace manifest in sacraments of rupture and awe. Holly Iglesias is coeditor, with Catherine Reid, of HIS HANDS, HIS TOOLS, HIS SEX, HIS DRESS: LESBIAN WRITERS ON THEIR FATHERS, also available from SPD. HANDS-ON SAINTS is part of the Key Satch(el) quarterly chapbook series from Quale Press.
