Sleeping Preacher

"Kasdorf chronicles her difficult journey from the Mennonite community into which she was born to a secular life in New York City. The material presents an interesting and unusually close portrait of the Amish people--for the most part without sentimentality. . . . Paradoxically, the speaker justifies her new way of life by citing the lessons she learned as a child." --Publishers Weekly

About the author

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of Sleeping Preacher, Eve's Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a documentary project created in collaboration with photographer Steven Rubin. She has also published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, and a biographical study, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.

Summary

The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kasdorf, Julia Spicher Kasdorf
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.1992
• EAN: 9780822954804
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5480-4
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 122 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies