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Before I Had the Word : Poems / Brooke Sahni.

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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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