"Martin's work clings to the memory like the scent of incense in a church. Each line pushes the reader further into doubt as to what is human and what is divine. That doubt is vital, as poet and reader are both. Martin writes so potently that one feels they should roll up the pages and smoke them after they're read. Transcendent. Poetry as a Schedule I substance." - Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife and the Road to Nowhere series.While I wait to be a god again is an evocative collection of poetry that plays with the line between what it means to be human and what it means to be divine. It is an expression of bemused disillusionment after growing up to find that adulthood is filled with people that are as equally lost as you. Yet, somehow, finding humor in the pain and ennui of that discovery. This follow-up collection to Martin's debut, The Playground, is for those that enjoy the magical realism of Neil Gaiman's American Gods or poetic voices such as Hal Sirowitz, Beau Sia, or Mary Karr.
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