Old And New Testaments (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Powell, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299149005 ISBN 13: 9780299149000

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995

Synopsis

The poems of Old & New Testaments explore Lynn Powell's Southern Baptist upbringing and how that history echoes through her adult experiences of sexual love, self-knowledge, loss, and motherhood. Powell's poems chronicle a life "lush with the ordinary," where truths reveal themselves in the "same, sad, immutable text" of a withered face and in a child's rickety letters tilting across the page. When grace answers grief in these poems, it is not with reassurance, but with a call to "the narrow path to Love."

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From the Back Cover

'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 Powell was 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0299149005
• ISBN 13: 9780299149000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100