Before I Had the Word : Poems / / Brooke Sahni
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| Autore: |
Sahni Brooke
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| Titolo: |
Before I Had the Word : Poems / / Brooke Sahni
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| Pubblicazione: | [2021] |
| Huntsville, Texas : , : Texas Review Press | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (69 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Immanence of God |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Poetry |
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| Note generali: | "2020 Winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize."--Cover. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Before I Had the Word |
| ISBN: | 1-68003-258-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819158703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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