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God in Her Ruffled Dress
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.00
Publisher: What Books Press
Published: Oct 17 2023
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
God in Her Ruffled Dress enacts conversations between illness and wellness, body and spirit, the temporal and the eternal. These poems chart a personal investigation of the divine, in which erotic desire is central, feminist awareness is inherent, and gender is many-faceted. But the spark for each poem is not ideology, but rather, a lyrical impulse to search and illuminate.
Bookended by two poem-prayers, the book's four sections move from healing to various forms of creating:
- Return to the Body includes poems on Lisa B's longstanding type 1 diabetes, Biblical scripture, and spiritual transformation.
- Drum the Beginning of the World focuses on the human/divine interface through the lens of singing and music, with homages to jazz masters and poems on the author's own practice as a vocalist.
- Sever the Head is inspired by pandemic politics.
- Finally, Propagate probes love, sensuality, birth, and death.
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