Head full of sun / by Carla Funk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Funk, Carla, 1974-

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