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Scriptorium:Poems
[Paperback - 2016]
tracy k. smith
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: European History - General Religion
Publisher: Beacon Press | ISBN: 9780807094440 | Pages: 96
Shipping Weight: .136 | Dimensions: 5.9 x .3 x 8.8 inches

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National Poetry Series Winner

A collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia—with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

The poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious ideas are codified in writing and a place where an individual scribe might, with a sly movement of the pen, express unorthodox religious thoughts and experiences.
 
In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, Scriptorium also addresses the authority of the vernacular in various time periods and places, particularly in the Appalachian slang of the author’s East Tennessee upbringing. Throughout Scriptorium, the historical mingles with the personal: poems about medieval art, theology, and verse share space with poems that chronicle personal struggles with faith and doubt.

About the Author

Melissa Range is the author ofScriptorium, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), andHorse and Rider(Texas Tech University Press, 2010). She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and blogs about American literature pedagogy.

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