The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems by Mennies, Rachel

The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems

In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting...
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Author: Rachel Mennies
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The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems by Mennies, Rachel

The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems

$49.70

The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems

$49.70
Author: Rachel Mennies
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love, and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to "our God, the / collector of stories / and bodies," a force somehow responsible for both death and liberation. Here, Mennies examines survival, assimilation, and intermarriage, subjects bound together by complex, if sometimes compromised, ties to the speaker's Judaism. Through wit and careful prosody, The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards lays bare the struggles and triumphs experienced through a teenage girl's coming of age, showing the reader what it means to become--and remain--a Jewish woman in America.

Author: Rachel Mennies
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 04/15/2014
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780896728547


Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist

About the Author
Rachel Mennies s poems have appeared in "Hayden s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review," "Cimarron Review," and elsewhere, and have been reprinted at "Poetry Daily." Born in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University."

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