The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self

Joe Wenderoth's The Holy Spirit of Life is truly reinventing/reinvigorating satire. For all his quirks and sexual "'perversions," Wenderoth is one of our most political and moral writers! Because of his tone, he can take on issues that most other writers would either sound shrill or snivel-y tackling. The Da Vinci Code has nothing on The Holy Spirit of Life. Wenderoth's Jesus didn't marry Mary--he was already a woman who has an orgy with the disciples. This controversial essay and the letters from an editor who ultimately could not convince publishers of a magazine to print the essay are worth the price of this book. Wenderoth discusses issues of censorship and silence intelligently in these essays and poems.