Freud, who collected statuettes like those displayed at Royal Athena, called them "my dirty gods".
They're not the only people who are entitled to talk about protective forces, angels, saints, benign interventions, duendes, dirty gods and clean ones.
"Sin and salvation," says the man who dedicates to God Dirty Mind, a record that promises, "incest is everything it's meant to be".
In the poetry category, the nominees were Anne Carson for her collection "Men in the Off Hours" and Yusef Komunyakaa for "Talking Dirty to the Gods".
Other notable publications by Komunyakaa include Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (2000) and several collections of poetry—Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000), Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (2001), Taboo (2004), Warhorses (2008), and The Chameleon Couch (2011).
Formally, in "Talking Dirty to the Gods," Komunyakaa has undertaken a sequence that sits squarely and self-consciously on the page: each of the 132 poems here is of 16 lines (four quatrains), and the lines are usually of four stresses.
What if, in a year and a half, there is another attack - say, God forbid, a dirty bomb?
This was me getting my hands dirty in the service of God.
Again, they believed that the hands of God could not dirty themselves with the material creation.
The people run all over the life like dirty angels and forget how God did kiss their face before they come here and shine so bright.
