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The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards. Poems.
Rachel Mennies
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Description for The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards. Poems.
Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman’s relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to “our God, the / collector of stories / and bodies,” a force somehow responsible for both death and liberation. Here, Mennies examines survival, assimilation and intermarriage, subjects bound together by complex, if sometimes compromised, ties to the speaker’s Judaism. Through wit and careful prosody, The ... Read more lays bare the struggles and triumphs experienced through a teenage girl’s coming of age, showing the reader what it means to become - and remain - a Jewish woman in America. Show Less
In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman’s relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to “our God, the / collector of stories / and bodies,” a force somehow responsible for both death and liberation. Here, Mennies examines survival, assimilation and intermarriage, subjects bound together by complex, if sometimes compromised, ties to the speaker’s Judaism. Through wit and careful prosody, The ... Read more lays bare the struggles and triumphs experienced through a teenage girl’s coming of age, showing the reader what it means to become - and remain - a Jewish woman in America. Show Less
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896728547
SKU
V9780896728547
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About Rachel Mennies
Rachel Mennies’s poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review and elsewhere, and have been reprinted at Poetry Daily. Born in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.
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