SAINT OF is a gilded exploration of hunger—the hunger for the erotic, the ancestral, the forbidden, divinity, and reclamation. With themes of grief, illness, and generational trauma woven alongside sensuality and beauty, this collection is both sacrament and defiance. It traces the contours of longing, ruin, and transformation, blurring the boundaries between the carnal and the celestial. These poems are not only an invocation of saints—they are a declaration of self.

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Select poems from SAINT OF
saint of salvage at Moria Magazine of Woodbury University
saint of pentralia at The Centre for New Writing at the University of Leicester
saint of sepulture at Lover’s Eye Press
saint of orphaned girls at Eunoia Review
saint of precipice at Pink Disco

Feels for SAINT OF

“Sophisticated turns of phrase depict a time much older than the hand that wrote them…Basile’s tendency towards darkness is freeing somehow, preparative in some way. For these things come to us all, and she articulates it with ease: ‘The maggots roosting in the hollow.’ Such deep sadness seems effortless. I respect that. The skill in her words is profound.” — Lisa Natasha Wetton, Everybody’s Reviewing

“SAINT OF went for the jugular in terms of the very foundations through which so many of us see the world…This is a book about starting out in ruin and in want and playing by different rules to achieve wholeness. This is a book where ruin in fact becomes ‘the mother of wholeness,’ and where ‘Being good / isn't the only way to be good...’ A profoundly world-building and redemptive articulation, this collection renders transgression as an alchemical process.” — Kelly Egan, Goodreads

”Lisa Marie Basile’s writing has reckoned with mysticism, transcendence, and religious iconography over the years. Publisher White Stag describes Basile’s new book saint of as “a gilded exploration of hunger—the hunger for the erotic, the ancestral, the forbidden, divinity, and hope.” — Vol 1, Brooklyn, ‘Book of the Month’

“From the whispers of orphaned girls to the confessions of burdened lovers, the poems weave a rich tapestry of human connection and longing. This book reminds us that even in the depths of despair, there is beauty to be found, and that the human spirit is capable of enduring even the most profound sorrows.” — Trista Edwards, author of Spectral Evidence

Release date: February 1, 2025 | White Stag Publishing | 979—8—990872—45—5
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