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Informationen zum Autor Born and raised in Kentucky, Jennie Malboeuf received a BA at Centre College and an MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems have appeared in the Gettysburg Review , VQR , the Southern Review , Best New Poets , and elsewhere. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, David, and dog, Mavis. She teaches writing at Guilford College. Klappentext The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems employ a trinity of sequences that address a present, past, and possible future--from a troubled reckoning with belief to loss and promise still ahead. In this debut collection from Jennie Malboeuf, we observe undercurrents of violence and power, the dynamics of memory, gender, marriage, and miscarriage. At times, God is brutal. At times, delicate. Through true stories of animal savagery, God had a body unravels human behavior and undoes the opaque and cryptic mysteries of faith. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsThe GodheadPart IFirst Death Ever FilmedChrist is a Great Blue HeronThe Cow's EyeAnimals in the BibleFrog Gig, 1983Some Things Have Been Heard EnoughGracklesWildingRuthSacred HeartAnimalsThe Meaning of GodA Figure for the Holy GhostPart IIThe CountryOrreryThe LeonidsEarly Signs of the ApocalypseZoonosisSong of the CockMen in My Bed as Dead Animal in Dog Mouthal MealLandscape Where I Forget My FatherBlindfoldAnimals in CaptivityThe Nightjarphylum::class::order::family::genusThe Giving AwayRepletionSnakehandlingFearWhat the Eclipse Does to AnimalsThe Miracle of the PigsLandscape Where I Miss My MotherPhobia, 1985lullabyGrandmothersThe MenIn the MythsKingdomHubrisThe WomenFirst MirrorThe ScrewwormMnemonicsOde to the CannibalMan, Beast, Lion, BirdGod-manInscapeThought Inventory with Rorschach and CaesuraLetting GoTopography of a BirdPart IIINewfound Star SystemDouble Star-OrbsThe GodwitTo Begin WithHeavy Animals, or Frustrated Attempts to See GodImmolationThe HydraEschatologyThe GospelsThe Lesser Water BoatmanOrgasm as LapwingErectionValentineThe QuickeningWedding NightElflandNestingflying changeStrawberry MoonHonest SignalsReasons We Should Be TogetherThe Night We Decided Was a Day ...
