Good Sense & The Faithless

Michelle T. Clinton

Good Sense & The Faithless, Michelle T. Clinton’s second book of poetry, is a bold exploration of powerful themes, from everyday acts of love and hate in the ghetto to gestures of political and sexual survival in a postmodern no-woman’s land.                                                                

“Michelle T. Clinton once again serves up tough-tongued sagas characteristic of her solid first book. . . . Frank, raw, courageous, and sincere, these poems dare the reader to throw the first stone—and better not run.”—Wanda Coleman

“Good Sense & The Faithless is about abuse and survival, about the twisted and obstacle-strewn path towards love in the late twentieth century. . . . As always, Clinton delivers her message in a language that tears, burns, and cries with the supercharged rhythms of the city and the sonic leaps of a soul that will not rest until Love is restored.”—Reuben Martinez

This is a poem about the triumph of shattered divinity
for example/          the god of orgasm sometimes makes an ugly face
the anti-god of time hangs out w/ the pseudo god of rent money
the first & last god I call on lives at the bottom of my gut
where bits of smashed gods fell into me

If it weren’t for the broken gods
I wouldn’t have none.
             —“More Gods Means Less Slavery”

6 x 9 inches • 94 pages • ISBN 0-931122-75-9 • $9.95