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Imago, Dei

Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
4.35/5 (52 ratings)
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How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if not whole, how does she piece together some kind of coherent self out of fragmented half-truths? The eighteen narrative poems in Imago, Dei bear witness to the emotional and psychological weight amassed from a girlhood fraught with vexed messages about what it means to be “good.” Narrated in third-person, lyric vignettes, these are poems about a daughter’s desire to be the son her well-meaning, but deeply damaged father thinks he needs; about an adolescent world filled with cute boys, predatory church leaders, Lakes of Fire, and broken girls who beg to be reborn; about the bad-girl specters of Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah that haunt her into adulthood and wreak havoc on her intimate relationships; about dirty dancing, Bible study, Lacanian theory, and crying after sex; and about what happens when a recovering evangelical becomes a mother to her own daughters.

Winner of the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize, Imago, Dei is a poetry collection from the author of Wild Things.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
44 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Rattle
Edition:
First
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1931307504
ISBN13:
9781931307505
kindle Asin:
1931307504

Imago, Dei

Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
4.35/5 (52 ratings)
Read Download
How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if not whole, how does she piece together some kind of coherent self out of fragmented half-truths? The eighteen narrative poems in Imago, Dei bear witness to the emotional and psychological weight amassed from a girlhood fraught with vexed messages about what it means to be “good.” Narrated in third-person, lyric vignettes, these are poems about a daughter’s desire to be the son her well-meaning, but deeply damaged father thinks he needs; about an adolescent world filled with cute boys, predatory church leaders, Lakes of Fire, and broken girls who beg to be reborn; about the bad-girl specters of Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah that haunt her into adulthood and wreak havoc on her intimate relationships; about dirty dancing, Bible study, Lacanian theory, and crying after sex; and about what happens when a recovering evangelical becomes a mother to her own daughters.

Winner of the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize, Imago, Dei is a poetry collection from the author of Wild Things.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
44 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Rattle
Edition:
First
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1931307504
ISBN13:
9781931307505
kindle Asin:
1931307504

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