Antoinette Brim

Broschiertes Buch

These Women You Gave Me

Beschreibung

Antoinette Brim's These Women You Gave Me brings front and center Biblical mythology and legend to prove a truth that can only be proven through poetry. Brim's poems sing of the ability women have always had to love and thrive in spite of the most oppressive odds, or as Brim herself would say, "His heavy breath filled her ears. She awakened beneath." This is really gorgeous work. -Jericho Brown In These Women You Gave Me, Antoinette Brim weaves her personification poems of Lilith, Eden and Eve into a collection that is intimate and powerful. Her sensual, precise poems take root and resonate with the feminine in each of us. "Amidst the waters of the firmament:/ male and female float; as only indigo shadows/stitched to the depths with light can do…."Antoinette Brim's poetry is evocative, risky and true. -Suzanne Frischkorn In These Women You Gave Me, Antoinette Brim employs a meticulous, lyric sensibility to remind readers of the first women of the Bible and the roles women in the Judeo-Christian tradition have occupied since. This is a bold symphony to Lilith, the first woman, who "has read the Book and found her name erased." Eve, the second wife, submits; Lilith owns her name, her reflection, her body, and soul. Brim counters the erasure with a brilliant light and language that empowers all women, that gives cause for each reader to consider that the story is often not fully told. -Georgia Popoff

Autor

Antoinette Brim is the author of Icarus in Love (Main Street Rag, 2013) and Psalm of the Sunflower (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2010). She is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies, including Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series; Everyman's Library, 2012), edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali; Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander (FreedomSeed Press, 2013), edited by Ewuare X. Osayande; Critical Insights: Alice Walker (Salem Press, 2012), edited by Nagueyalti Warren; 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the 44th President of the United States (Third World Press, 2011), edited by Lita Hooper, Sonia Sanchez, and Michael Simanga; The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent (Haymarket Books, 2017), edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indolent Books
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 97g
• ISBN-13: 9781945023057
• ISBN-10: 1945023058
• Artikelnr.: 60451450