02549oam 22004814a 450 991081915870332120211203130428.01-68003-258-5(MiAaPQ)EBC6804088(Au-PeEL)EBL6804088(CKB)19410647900041(OCoLC)1285780915(OCoLC)1246674244(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98314(EXLCZ)991941064790004120210412d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBefore I Had the WordPoems /Brooke Sahni[2021]Huntsville, Texas :Texas Review Press,1 online resource (69 pages)"2020 Winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize."--Cover.Print version: Sahni, Brooke Before I Had the Word College Station : Texas Review Press,c2021 9781680032574 Before I had the word -- Sikh Coming from the Punjabi Meaning Disciple or Seeker -- G-d, a Portrait -- Mangifera Indica -- Language Lesson -- Heritage Day -- Leaving a Scripture -- How to Build a Body -- Notes on Midrash -- Lore -- Natural Law -- Divine Law -- The Sensuous Woman by J -- In your girlhood -- Order -- Creation Myth -- To the girl who cried over grass -- Whose Kingdom -- What My Mother Knows -- Divining -- Reform -- Notes on Midrash -- Jettison -- The Body of the Guru -- Why I ask for you to come in dreams -- What We Believed -- On Absence -- Notes on the Amorphous -- After Watching Religulous With a Friend -- Book Arts -- Inflorescence -- Casting, Pulling -- If you took out the e, you could be like the stream -- Ritual, Begging -- The Golden Reserve."The poems in Before I Had the Word explore the divine in the secular, mundane world, often challenging the definition of holiness. Sahni uses her religious and cultural backgrounds-Sikhism and Judaism-as springboards from which to question notions of the ecstatic in nature, sexuality and the body"--Provided by publisher.Immanence of Godfast(OCoLC)fst00967701Immanence of GodPoetryPoetry.Poetry.Electronic books. Immanence of God.Immanence of God811/.6Sahni Brooke1637134MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910819158703321Before I Had the Word3978789UNINA