Home Beneath the Church |
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Author:
| Davis, Lauren |
ISBN: | 978-1-59498-081-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2022 |
Publisher: | Barclay Press, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Fernwood Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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These poems showcase frustrations and deep-rooted hungers so authentically human we almost catch the heartbeat's throb in each line we ghost over. Every part of nature - the lover, the moon, snow, the sky, hummingbirds mating, a heard of elks - is worshiped on these pages, and with its incantations about how a woman resides within the (un)holy rooms of her body's longing and belongings, Home Beneath the Church crafts a home, a sanctuary, for any reader to cohabitate with the language...
More DescriptionThese poems showcase frustrations and deep-rooted hungers so authentically human we almost catch the heartbeat's throb in each line we ghost over. Every part of nature - the lover, the moon, snow, the sky, hummingbirds mating, a heard of elks - is worshiped on these pages, and with its incantations about how a woman resides within the (un)holy rooms of her body's longing and belongings, Home Beneath the Church crafts a home, a sanctuary, for any reader to cohabitate with the language of the prismatic familial and sacred.