There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash (Paraclete Poetry) - Softcover

Bornman, Amy

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9781640606135: There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash (Paraclete Poetry)
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ISBN 10: 1640606130 ISBN 13: 9781640606135
Publisher: Paraclete Press, 2020

Synopsis

Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable questions, felt to Amy Bornman like a poetic invitation to re-engage with the Bible in a new way. There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash – an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition – grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily midrashic poems in response to the readings—to honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the author’s own life—emerging at year’s end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the text’s enduring questions continue to ring.

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About the Author

Amy Bornman is a writer, artist, and designer, living in Pittsburgh. She studied theater at Wheaton College (IL), and designs sewing patterns for her small business, All Well Workshop. You can find more from Amy at amybornman.com. 
 

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Publisher
Paraclete Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1640606130
ISBN 13 
9781640606135
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
112
Rating
  • 4.53 out of 5 stars
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