Heaven S Thieves

Lyric poems built with consummate skill by a poet at the peak of her powers. Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions--What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art?--and the urgent ones--how to live in a shattered ecology, what to do about grief, illness, betrayal. Sinclair turns her attention to these questions with fearless curiosity, economy, and an originality born of her willingness to pursue her own line of inquiry to its limit. These poems get close and cut deep, mixing subject and object, surface and soul: "Red mud glistens / like cut fruit--or like the knife / that did the cutting, laid down." In this, her fifth collection, Sinclair knows that nature is both "done to death" and "inexhaustible"; that art is an elegy for experience, but even so, ...to die is not to wash through the body of a deer like a ghost; it isn't to skulk under a living skin. It's a change in the value of things. (from "The Dead") Experience and its value are changed in these poems. They are as wise as they are disruptive, and they change us as surely as they remake the world. Praise for Sue Sinclair: ..".a poet who looks long and hard at the world to draw existential meaning. Her studious gaze is insightful, even - dare I say it in this secular age - soulful." --Barbara Carey, The Toronto Star ..".vivid, lively, crisp, and packed with delicious surprise metaphors." --Anita Lahey, Arc Poetry Magazine

The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth. An explosive ancient secret. A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican. In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant–to steal the most important treasure in the Vatican museum: two antique keys–one gold, one silver–that protect the secret of salvation…. But a surprise awaits Michael St. Pierre deep inside the Vatican, an ancient secret so explosive, it sends him running for his life—from the streets of Rome to a small stone church in Israel—with two stolen keys and a terrible realization: the consequences of his desperate, brazen act are far greater than he could ever have imagined. For the treasure he has uncovered—the gleaming prize buried within the most clandestine structure on earth—is about to bring him face-to-face with an enemy more shocking, frightening, and insidious than anyone can guess....

A person with the physique of nothingness was useless? What the heck! Look at your father, he is the best successor to bliss! The overpowered Nine Heavens Calamity? Tch! This father has experienced 12 levels of heavenly tribulation! Self-destruct of the primordial spirit means the destruction of the soul? Crawl! I can revive again! The cultivation world is the only world? No, no, no! I've been to another world! The alternate world was a part of the cultivation world? You're too f*cking inexperienced! I'll tell you this: that's another universe! Heh heh, let's see how our pig feet grow all the way until we finally have a bird's eye view of the sky!

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