Melissa Range

Scriptorium (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of poems exploring questions of religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807094457
• Artikelnr.: 46591102

Autorenporträt

Melissa Range is the author of the poetry collection Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010) and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Antiquarian Society, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Originally from East Tennessee, Range currently lives in Wisconsin and teaches at Lawrence University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Tracy K. Smith
Verdigris
Labyrinth, Chartres
Ashburnham
A Skiff of Snow
Orpiment
Negative Theology
Kermes Red
Flat as a Flitter
Navajo Code Talkers, WWII
Tyrian Purple
Pigs (see Swine)
Ofermod
Lampblack
Fortunes of Men
Nicodemus Makes an Analysis
Biblia Pauperum
Minium
Anagram: See a Gray Pine
Solidus of the Empress Irene, AD 797–802
Incarnational Theology
Woad
Hit
Vernacular Theology: Mechthild of Magdeburg
To Swan
Ultramarine
Crooked as a Dog’s Hind Leg
All Creation Wept
The Giants’ Sword Melts
Gold Leaf
Cento: Natural Theology
Regionalism
Scriptorium
Shell White
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits