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Before I Had the Word : Poems / Brooke Sahni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sahni, Brooke, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immanence of God--Poetry.
- Immanence of God.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (69 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- "2020 Winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize."--Cover.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sahni, Brooke Before I Had the Word
- ISBN:
- 9781680032581
- 1680032585
- OCLC:
- 1285780915
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