Review of Sublime Physick on The Ploughshares Blog
Spanning a dozen essays of various lengths and subject matter, Sublime Physick presents questions and poses possibilities in Patrick Madden’s signature cerebral, yet often comical, style. No human endeavor is insignificant, not even spitting—or better yet, gleeking, which Madden describes as an expectorant art form. And no human foible is exempt from examination, not even, “zipper negligence.”