Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren Spanning the years of the

Spanning the years of the first great settlement of the West

which won the Lillian Smith Book Award

sharing candid interviews with people from all walks of life

It is Bombay in 1971

little has been known about her except what she chose to reveal in her published letters

Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren Spanning the years of theMartha 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