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Before I Had the Word : Poems /
"The poems in Before I Had the Word explore the divine in the secular, mundane world, often challenging the definition of holiness. Sahni uses her religious and cultural backgrounds-Sikhism and Judaism-as springboards from which to question notions of the ecstatic in nature, sexuality and the b...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Huntsville, Texas :
Texas Review Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Before I had the word
- Sikh Coming from the Punjabi Meaning Disciple or Seeker
- G-d, a Portrait
- Mangifera Indica
- Language Lesson
- Heritage Day
- Leaving a Scripture
- How to Build a Body
- Notes on Midrash
- Lore
- Natural Law
- Divine Law
- The Sensuous Woman by J
- In your girlhood
- Order
- Creation Myth
- To the girl who cried over grass
- Whose Kingdom
- What My Mother Knows
- Divining
- Reform
- Notes on Midrash
- Jettison
- The Body of the Guru
- Why I ask for you to come in dreams
- What We Believed
- On Absence
- Notes on the Amorphous
- After Watching Religulous With a Friend
- Book Arts
- Inflorescence
- Casting, Pulling
- If you took out the e, you could be like the stream
- Ritual, Begging
- The Golden Reserve.