Prelude - Poems

Poems that Center Lesbian Girlhood through a Historical Lens

About the author

Brynne Rebele-Henry's poetry collection, Autobiography of a Wound, won the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize, was one of Library Journal's Top Fall Poetry Picks for 2018, and was a finalist for the 2019 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award. Her first novel, Orpheus Girl, received the 2021 Young Adult Virginia Author Award from the Richmond Public Library and was listed as one of the most anticipated YA novels by Barnes & Noble and Chicago Review of Books. She is also the author of a bilingual (English and Slovenian) chapbook, Vizije Se Začnejo Pri Sestih (Visions Begin at Six), and is a 2021-2022 Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Summary

Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of Siena

Product details

• Authors: Brynne Rebele-Henry
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780822966883
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6688-3
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 224 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 118 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama