| Scriptorium: Poems Contributor(s): Range, Melissa (Author), Smith, Tracy K. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0807094447 ISBN-13: 9780807094440 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2015049944 |
| Series: National Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |