Unpious Pilgrim

In Unpious Pilgrim, George Spencer continues the gentle, but often brilliant satire begun in his second collection The Obscene Richness of Our Times. This third, larger volume explores the discovery and importance of sex, the education of a poet, tradition vs. modernity, the nature and practice of poetry, imagination and reality and celebrates artistic freedom. Its movement from a lighthearted satire of Language Poetry and the School of Ashbery to a passionate concern for sexual honesty and political and social justice and freedom entails the exposure and ridicule of hypocrisy and is memorable.
- Michael Graves, author of Adam And Cain, Illegal Border Crosser and Outside St. Jude's