God Had a Body: Poems (Blue Light Bks.)

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A debut collection of poetry exploring themes of religion, human behavior, identity, marriage, family, and loss.The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems employ a trinity of sequences that address a present, past, and possible future—from a troubled reckoning with belief to loss and promise still ahead.In this debut collection from Jennie Malboeuf, we observe undercurrents of violence and power, the dynamics of memory, gender, marriage, and miscarriage. At times, God is brutal. At times, delicate. Through true stories of animal savagery, God had a body unravels human behavior and undoes the opaque and cryptic mysteries of faith.“There is a fierce spirituality and mordant wit in God had a body, Jennie Malboeuf’s first book of poems. Here is a poet with a transformative vision of divine and earthly enterprise as well as a sharp eye for the repercussions of physical detail. Malboeuf’s use of enactments and embodiments—actions and images—startle and awaken the reader to a powerful new voice in American poetry. What a glorious debut collection.” —Stuart Dischell“Salient and provoking, sensuous and cerebral, Jennie Malboeuf’s poems locate holiness in the living, dead, partial and whole creations of this planet. . . . I relish these poems and will return to them for their stories, their humor, and the ways they intertwine language and life.” —Lisa Williams
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
112 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780253047250
Related ISBNs:
9780253047243
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Jennie Malboeuf
Adult content:
Yes
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Religion and Spirituality
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