Creative Writing

SAINT OF

by Lisa Marie Basile

Alum, 2012 - Creative Writing at The New School

White Stag Publishing, 2025

From the Publisher

saint of is a gilded exploration of hunger—the hunger for the erotic, the ancestral, the forbidden, divinity, and hope. With themes of grief, illness, and generational trauma woven alongside sensuality and beauty, this collection is both sacrament and defiance. It traces the contours of longing, ruin, and transformation, blurring the boundaries between the carnal and the celestial. These poems are not only an invocation of saints—they are a declaration of self.