Old And New Testaments (Volume 1995) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Softcover

Powell, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299149048 ISBN 13: 9780299149048

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0299149048
• ISBN 13: 9780299149048
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 82