Blood of the Poor (originally Le Sang du pauvre), by Catholic writer L?on Bloy, is perhaps the hardest to read of L?on Bloyʼs writings, as it goes straight to the heart of the matter of what is wrong in the world. It is hard to read, emotively, because it gives the honest reader no room for cover, no space for shelter, no shadow of a tree to hide behind. With avarice as its subject, it is a dark poem in prose, a sermon in the...