Sign-In
Cart
Them That Slept: New & Selected Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781961209671
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A selection of poems that form a narrative about psychological and spiritual somnambulance in our current age and the ever-urgent need to wake up.
In Them That Slept, Larissa Szporluk gathers three decades of work into a single incandescent arc--poems that braid feminist theology, eros, and myth into a lyric of fierce awakening. Borrowing its title from First Corinthians--the firstfruits of them that slept--this collection asks what it means to rise, not into certainty, but into desire, voice, and embodiment. Here, virgins become saints and saints become women of appetite. Daughters speak back to fathers. The sea mothers and devours. Joan of Arc lingers in her cell. Venus tweets. The body is never merely symbolic--it is radiant, wounded, knowing. Szporluk's women are not passive figures in inherited narratives; they are theologians of touch, architects of longing, midwives of their own transformations.
Across selections from six previous books and a powerful suite of new poems, Szporluk reimagines sacred language as intimate speech. Biblical cadences shimmer against domestic interiors, fields, bedrooms, and storm skies. Eros is not an ornament but a form of knowledge; faith is not obedience but risk. These are poems that refuse to sleep through history. They burn toward revelation-- sensual, subversive, and alive.
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Alighieri, Dante
Pitavy, Francois
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback