Altar by Desree
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025 Leonard Cohen author and Hans Jonas Professor

author and Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York

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Altar by Desree<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025</b> Leonard Cohen author and Hans Jonas ProfessorThe debut poetry collection from award winning writer and spoken word artist, Desree, Altar explores multifaceted dimensions of sacrifice, challenging its heroism and examining its ties to servility. The poems in Altar urge their protagonists to play neither lion nor lamb, but to live and flourish on their own terms. Each page glimmers with vivid, often devastating vignettes: we witness the resilience of youth, the strength of the Black female body,