Perverse Verses: A Poem of Sexual Revolt Paperback 1987478975 9781987478976 Claudia Aboud

Religious authorities, the common faithful and perhaps especially feminists are likely to be shocked and angered by Claudia Aboud's long poem, Perverse Verses. It is a general call for rebellion against the Deity by sexual transgression, a Deity whose existence remains unquestioned, but whose subversive evil is likewise affirmed. The anti-hero, Caine, pursues God through a series of actions, narratives and relationships which splinter the text and challenge the reader. We follow the lives of four young women, and a host of succubi in Hell, as well as the Devil himself through pornographic acts including bondage, rape, bestiality and incest. Claudia Aboud was precociously-educated in the West at the universities of Salamanca, in Spain and Chicago, in the United States. Ms. Aboud is forty-seven.