74 pages
Published 2022
Read June 2
Rating: 4 out of 5
In comparison to Heart, Haunt, Havoc, which Freydís Moon wrote first but published later, Exodus 20:3 is a more assured outing: polished, horny, and glittering with uneasy radiance. Moon’s prose is barbed and evocative, hungry and aching with holy lust. The Catholicism of Heart has been stretched raw to accommodate an almost pantheistic ravening for sanctity. Holiness here is the terror and wonder of being seen, of embodying creation with the sculpting of one’s body into its truest shape. Angel and human alike are conduits for the divine, the worship of the fragments of God scattered through creation. The unpacking of religious trauma has rarely felt this sexy.
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