Old and New Testaments - Volume 1995

'Lynn Powell's Old & New Testaments is a reclaiming of spiritual texts and traditions for a woman's life in the body--a life of childhood physicality, female sexuality, procreation, and nurturing love. Playful, tender and wise, Powell brings her gospel learning down to earth. We can hail her poems in an old phrase with a new meaning: they are full of grace.'--Alicia Ostriker

About the author

Lynn Powellwas raised in East Tennessee and educated at Carson-Newman College and Cornell University. She has worked extensively as a writer in the schools for the Tennessee Arts Commission, the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and currently, the Ohio Arts Council. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, and other journals. She lives in Oberlin, Ohio.

Summary

These poems explore the author's Southern Baptist upbringing and how that history echoes through her adult experiences of sexual love, self-knowledge, loss and motherhood. Her "testament" is that of a life, a family and a world.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Powell, Lynn C. Powell
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1995
• EAN: 9780299149048
• ISBN: 978-0-299-14904-8
• No. of pages: 82
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 230 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 150 g
• Series: Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Wisconsin Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies