Jonah Christmas 1917

A daring collection of poems that blends myth, sensuality, satire, and darkly comic imagination. Its opening visions move from Jonah praying inside the vast body of a whale to Behemoth basking while mortals draw strength from his monstrous form, creating a world where biblical figures, ancient artifacts, gods, animals, and human appetites coexist in vivid unease.

The poems shift freely between English and French, pairing ornate imagery with sharp wit and melancholy. Alongside grotesque fantasies are reflections on artistic loneliness, forgotten sensuality, spiritual doubt, and the strange distance between lofty ideals and ordinary human nature. The language is often lush and surprising, with moments of deliberate vulgarity that challenge conventional ideas of beauty and reverence. Best suited to listeners who enjoy concise, highly visual poetry, classical allusions, and a voice that can be both playfully irreverent and genuinely wistful.