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Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems is the daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco. Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic lan. A poetry that gleefully articulates the possibilities of a 21st century balls-deep masculinity, Porco s new collections begins with its most important work, Augustine in Carthage, a trans-historical re-imagining of Book III of St. Augustine s Confessions, which includes (among other things) philosophizing strippers,