The Hypocrypha

The Hypocrypha
by Tony Arnold
Scripture for the unrepentant.
Part hymnal, part heresy, part confession booth with the door kicked in — The Hypocrypha is a collection that treats blasphemy as a sacrament and self-parody as a holy function. These are poems for readers who've outgrown easy answers but never lost their appetite for the sublime: verses that swing from gothic reverie to gutter-mouthed satire, from tender elegy to apocalyptic burlesque, often within the same breath.
Here you'll find fallen angels and barroom philosophers, gryphonesses and pink elephants, sheep who refuse to be led, and lovers who speak in ophidian lullabies. It's a book that laughs at God's absence and weeps at His silence — sometimes on the same page. Dense with wordplay, unafraid of ugliness, and stitched through with a mordant, unmistakable wit, The Hypocrypha doesn't ask for your reverence. It asks for your attention, and it earns it.
If you like your poetry with teeth — equal parts liturgy and mockery, equal parts wound and wisecrack — this is your new gospel.
Not for the pious. Perfect for the rest of us.

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