LEADER 02549oam 22004814a 450 001 9910795172503321 005 20211203130428.0 010 $a1-68003-258-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6804088 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6804088 035 $a(CKB)19410647900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1285780915 035 $a(OCoLC)1246674244 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98314 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919410647900041 100 $a20210412d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBefore I Had the Word$ePoems /$fBrooke Sahni 210 1$d[2021]$aHuntsville, Texas :$cTexas Review Press, 215 $a1 online resource (69 pages) 300 $a"2020 Winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize."--Cover. 311 08$aPrint version: Sahni, Brooke Before I Had the Word College Station : Texas Review Press,c2021 9781680032574 327 $aBefore 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. 330 $a"The poems in Before I Had the Word explore the divine in the secular, mundane world, often challenging the definition of holiness. Sahni uses her religious and cultural backgrounds-Sikhism and Judaism-as springboards from which to question notions of the ecstatic in nature, sexuality and the body"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aImmanence of God$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00967701 606 $aImmanence of God$vPoetry 608 $aPoetry. 608 $aPoetry. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImmanence of God. 615 0$aImmanence of God 676 $a811/.6 700 $aSahni$b Brooke$01572668 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795172503321 996 $aBefore I Had the Word$93847769 997 $aUNINA