Double Effect: Poems
(Part of the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award Series and Barataria Poetry Series Series)
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Martha Serpas's Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringing about a good result. In resonant verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can come from destructive situations: maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, mania, ecological devastation. Serpas shows that compromised marshes...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807172758
ISBN13:9780807172759
Release Date:August 2020
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:88 Pages
Weight:0.53 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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