Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart

Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents, was a 5th-century harlot who lived the last 47 years of her life as a desert ascetic. Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart transposes Mary's vita to a contemporary setting, with Mary appearing as the young artist and lay philosopher Moira (and sometimes Moina) Jones. Part-hagiography, part-künstlerroman in poetic form, Moira of Edges carries us into "edge time": a limned threshold; a quivering seam; an angular meditation on god, sex, the metaphysics of time and perception.