Prelude
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022], ©2022.
Format: Book
Description: viii, 61 pages ; 23 cm.
Finalist, 2023 Lammy Award in Lesbian Poetry
Prelude delineates the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood of Catherine of Siena, a Catholic saint who lived in 1300s Italy and disobeyed her parents by refusing marriage to devote her life to God. Through a historical lens, Brynne Rebele-Henry examines the erasure of gay women's lives and offers a perspective of medieval queer girlhood while considering themes such as violence, desire, and the lesbian body.
Series: Pitt poetry series.
Contents:
Prelude to Becoming Holy -- As a girl I believed in -- Prelude to Stardust -- Bonaventura -- Lapa -- Introduction to Sainthood -- Absolvement -- Aubade for a Glass-Boned Saint -- Creation Myth 1 -- Creation Myth 2 -- Creation Myth 3 -- Creation Myth 4 -- Creation Myth 5 -- Orchadiae -- Desiderare -- An elegy for what I could never be -- Miraculae -- Mantelatte -- Severance -- Upon Praying -- Swallow -- Matrimonio Bianco -- To turn slowly to the dusk -- In which your body is a holy object -- Countenance -- Take -- Leggera -- Gialla -- Forever moving further and further away from us -- Sessuale -- In which your body is a dead thing, birch wood, thorns, a half-prayer -- Lesbica -- Terra -- Scheletrica -- To accept (blindly) -- Assolvere -- Oscuritá -- Disintegrare -- Elegy for a Broken Sun -- Paradisum -- Niente, Niente, Niente.
ISBN:
9780822966883
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Reb | Main (Downtown) | Display - Third Level, Nonfiction | In |