Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren It is Bombay in 1971

It is Bombay in 1971

Then things go from dead to worse when she and all the suspects are stuck in the victim's home during the worst snowstorm her little town has seen in decades

And then he set out to break me

which won the Lillian Smith Book Award

and been tested by the most powerful and the most humbling of men

Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren It is Bombay in 1971Martha Serpas's Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringing about a good result. In resonant verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can come from destructive situations: maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, mania, ecological devastation. Serpas shows that compromised marshes and