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Head full of sun / by Carla Funk.

LIBRA PR9199.3.F855 H422 2002
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Author/Creator:
Language:
English
Genre:
  • Fiction.
Physical Description:
128 pages ; 19 cm
Place of Publication:
Roberts Creek : Nightwood Editions, 2002.
Summary:
"Head Full of Sun" celebrates poetry and language' s rich spiritual heritage by weaving together the biblical and the personal. Carla Funk uses biblical forms and stories to explore the human condition and give blood and bone to the spiritual. These poems lament, question and sing praise as they wrestle with the divine. In the main component of this collection, Funk has created an "Alphabet of Psalms" that works to find a song in every corner of Earth' s many rooms. These twenty-six poems are modelled after Psalm 119, which uses each letter of the Hebrew alphabet for its twenty-two segments. In another section, Funk pulls the lives of biblical women from the background, giving them the opportunity to articulate the untold portion of the story. And finally, she takes on Revelations, a book that inspired sermons that terrified her as a child but which she has come to appreciate as a "richly poetic book with imagery to envy." From Eve in Eden to the apocalyptic imagery of Revelations, Funk translates theology into a convincing and down-to-earth human tongue, pushing through the veil for an intimate look at God.
Contents:
  • Darkness Like Dresses
  • Eve 9
  • Goliath's Wife 11
  • Rahab 14
  • Ruth 16
  • Bathsheba 18
  • Jezebel 20
  • Hosea's Wife 22
  • Tamar 24
  • Mary Magdalene 25
  • An Alphabet of Psalms
  • Psalm of Assumptions 33
  • Psalm of the Bedroom Floor, 1991 35
  • Psalm of 'Carla' 37
  • Psalm of Deepest Night 38
  • Psalm of Easter Break Vacation, 1981 40
  • Psalm of Falling 42
  • Psalm of Galileo 44
  • Psalm of Honesty 46
  • Psalm of Infertility 48
  • Psalm of July 1978, Photograph 50
  • Psalm of Kisses 51
  • Psalm for the Lover 54
  • Psalm of Mercy 55
  • Psalm of Need 57
  • Psalm of the Obvious 59
  • Psalm of Peru 60
  • Psalm of Questions 62
  • Psalm of Regret 64
  • Psalm of Shoes 65
  • Psalm of Thirst 68
  • Psalm of Us 70
  • Psalm of Veils 72
  • Psalm of Water 75
  • Psalm of 'X' 76
  • Psalm of Years Later 78
  • Psalm of Zion 80
  • In the Gallery Apocalypse
  • Dream Apocalypse 85
  • In the Gallery Apocalypse 94
  • Tongues of Men and Angels
  • Revelations, Age Eight 108
  • Devotion 110
  • Tongues of Men and Angels 113
  • Beautiful 118
  • Lies 120
  • Origins 122
  • Proverbs 124
  • Doxology 126.
Notes:
Poems.
ISBN:
0889711852
OCLC:
49205775

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