Poetry. In a probing exploration of womanhood, Anna Rabinowitz's THE WANTON SUBLIME cuts through the pieties to the human issues spiraling around the Annunciation and the Virgin Mary. Yet this is not a "religious" book by any means. Instead, we see a new slant on freedom, subjugation, and the mother-child relationship, illuminated by interconnected fragments, lyrics, multiple choice questions, argument, and ancient texts. THE WANTON SUBLIME rewards readers with formal invention and linguistic brilliance in a blissful marriage of form and content. "Anna Rabinowitz gives us language at a height and experience at a depth that the whole art suddenly appears as a plinth on the plain of American letters"--Molly Peacock.