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Gomer's Song
Paperback
Series: Black Goat
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781933354446
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Sep 1 2007
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.19 Depth: 8.88
Language: English
Gomer's Song is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Bible story. Gomer, a harlot, was the wife of the Old Testament prophet Hosea. But even after her marriage to Hosea, she refused to conform to her expected role. In Gomer, poet Kwame Dawes finds the subject for a beautiful contemporary exploration on the cost of arriving at freedom with an uneasy grace.
Dawes examines the insidious nature of power, the expectations of gender roles, and the limits of protest. Through Gomer's journey, we are asked to consider how each one of us must articulate not only our own defiance, but tally the costs of earning our individuality. Gomer's Song is a great fable for finding our humanity in the confusion of a post-9/11 world. This is tender a book with profound lyrical insights.
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