Buzz Poole has written about books, music, art and culture for numerous publications, including Print, The Village Voice, The Believer, Swindle and San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of Madonna of the Toast, a look at the visual manifestations of religious and secular icons. www.madonnaofthetoast.blogspot.com
We encounter images of the Virgin Mary constantly: in churches, tattoos, and local news stories reporting frequent visual manifestations of her iconic form.