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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Perrine is an associate professor of English and directs the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Drake University. Perrine is the author of In the Human Zoo, recipient of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and The Body Is No Machine, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Klappentext Jennifer Perrine is an associate professor of English and directs the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Drake University. Perrine is the author of In the Human Zoo! recipient of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize! and The Body Is No Machine! winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Zusammenfassung Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine! the poems in No Confession! No Mass move toward restoration and reunion. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsI.Invocation: [Saint] GenevieveThe Mother, the Girl, the Mirror That SpeaksTo Chant Back the SummerHumility | PrideFor the Lone Man at the Violence Prevention CenterEmbarrassment: from baraço (halter)Envy | KindnessAfter My Mother's Death, I Feel NothingII.Invocation: [Saint] EuphrosyneA Theory of ViolenceThe Divorcée's FableSong of the BystanderPibloktoA Theory of Violence'Tis of TheeGreed | CharityMobilityPatience | WrathA Theory of ViolenceIII.Invocation: The Blessed Girl, after Her Visions and VowsSelf-Portrait as Francis BaconLetter to Half a Lifetime AgoLove Song with Condemned BuildingLustCall MeLust | ChastityYokeWild Child (Slight Return)I Would Rather Die a Thousand DeathsOde to the MotorcycleDead LetterIV.Invocation: [Saint] PharaïldisPastoral for Our Uncharted TerritoriesFishwifeTemperance | GluttonyThe Mystic Speaks of AttachmentConfidence GameWow and FlutterDiligence | SlothElegy for My Morbid CuriosityHappiness: from hap (fortune, luck)CoronalSeconds
