<p><span style=color: rgba(20 20 20 1)>While hymns are traditionally means of communicating the divine&nbsp;</span><em style=color: rgba(20 20 20 1)>Hymnal for Catastrophe</em><span style=color: rgba(20 20 20 1)>&nbsp;invests sacred forms in the ordinary and commonplace. Falling out of love losing a friend not having money to buy food: these things we experience all the time can often feel as profound and catastrophic as the end of the world. The manuscript is a blend of poetry and lyric essays that deal with these themes elevating molecular catastrophes to the level of apocalypse.&nbsp;This is a chapbook collection by René Bennett.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>