Island of the innocent : a consideration on the Book of Job / Diane Glancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glancy, Diane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Job--Poetry.

Bible.

Bible. Job--Fiction.

Bible--Influence--Poetry.

Bible--Influence--Fiction.

Bible. Job.

Short stories.

Prose poems, American.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Turtle Point Press, [2020]

Summary:

"There is much mystery surrounding the Book of Job. Who was he? Where was he? What prompts Job's "comforters" to accuse him of wrong-doing as the cause of his suffering? When were Job's words written? How did Job's wife endure her husband's ordeals? And who is innocent among us?Island of the Innocent's narrative dramatizes how the way one looks at something shapes and changes what is seen. Voices of the trials of the Native American interject themselves into the text. There is Custer riding toward the Little Bighorn. There is a Native American doll in a museum, taken from a battlefield in western Nebraska after the massacre of Ash Hollow. There is Job, sitting in his yard chair in discomfort, among the falling leaves and his three friends.And finally, Jehorah. Only Diane Glancy could create the missing story of Job's wife, unsilencing this biblical character and endowing her suffering with meaning. Here is Jehorah in "Job's Wife" Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1

May lit the sky. p. 1

Dormer p. 2

A Treatise on Suffering in Uz p. 3

Now You Are More Yourself p. 6

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out-JOB 37:23 p. 7

Extirpate p. 8

Versions of the Many-Versions-of-Greasy-Grass p. 10

Alternative Facts p. 15

History (a) by interlocutory p. 16

May it work p. 17

My Own Uz p. 18

Sometimes a door closes in its place p. 19

Part 2

More than Content Is the Manner in Which It Is Held p. 25

Part 3

I have sewed sackcloth to my skin-Job 16:15 p. 43

I Will Drop by Unannounced p. 44

She Was First to Speak p. 45

Butter Beans p. 46

Job, the Comet Man p. 48

Storiation p. 50

Friends Arrive p. 51

Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar p. 52

Elihu the Weather-Man Arrives p. 53

Behemoth Speaks for Himself and Leviathan p. 54

Certain Days Gave Him Trouble p. 56

Jehorah p. 57

With Dreams upon My Bed p. 70

Comet-Man's Wife p. 73

Part 4

The Long Arc of My Driving p. 77

Part 5

Until the times of restitution- ACTS 3:21 p. 93

Pretend p. 95

An ordinary day to work p. 98

The So-Called Ostrich Speech p. 99

He Liveth p. 100

He Have Nothing to Do the Rest of the Day but Jumping p. 102

Leave the Wife Alone Let Her Fire Up Her Toaster p. 103

The taken parts of a text p. 104

Clarification for the Knitting and Fabric-Arts Club of Uz p. 105

Bridge p. 107

How Can I Keep from Happening This? p. 108

The Questioning p. 110

Lament for the Animals p. 112

There Was in Uz p. 115

Fluvial p. 117

He Dressed Me for the Pretend Cold p. 119

Part 6

An Act of Invasion p. 125

I, Job p. 130

Driving through Snow across Ohio, January 12, 2018 p. 132

What she cooked in white lard on the wood stove. p. 134

Where Does the River Go at Night? p. 136

A Controlled Burn p. 137

There is Job in his yard chair. p. 139

Yet Trouble Came p. 140

Dear General p. 141

You have heard of the patience of Job-James 5:11 p. 142

Part 7

Job in the Interstice I p. 147

Job in the Interstice II p. 150

Job in the Interstice III p. 153

Job in the Interstice IV p. 156

Fly Swatter - Meat Cleaver - for the Standard Kitchen p. 158

Therefore, the where were you? speech of Job chapters 38-41 after which Job repents p. 159

The first [observed] black hole Cygnus X-1. The first hen [Raphaella]. p. 160

A Mole in Uz p. 161

Part 8 Restoration

Job's Wife p. 165

American Villanelle p. 167

Travel from Pittsburgh [again] / Writing the Versions: A Recurrence of Variation p. 170

The Bat House p. 178

Unicorn p. 182

Jump Suit p. 185

Where Is the Is that Is Is? p. 195.

ISBN:

9781885983800

1885983808

OCLC:

1119619480

Publisher Number:

99985148437