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- Poems
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- Poems
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National Poetry Series Winner

A collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia—with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

The poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious ideas are codified in writing and a place where an individual scribe might, with a sly movement of the pen, express unorthodox religious thoughts and experiences.
 
In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, Scriptorium also addresses the authority of the vernacular in various time periods and places, particularly in the Appalachian slang of the author’s East Tennessee upbringing. Throughout Scriptorium, the historical mingles with the personal: poems about medieval art, theology, and verse share space with poems that chronicle personal struggles with faith and doubt.





Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
96
ISBN-13:
9780807094440
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0807094447
Udg. Dato:
18 okt 2016
Længde:
8mm
Bredde:
216mm
Højde:
140mm
Forlag:
Beacon Press
Oplagsdato:
18 okt 2016
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