Holy Land: Poems ODonnell Angela Alaimo
"Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." --Exodus 3:5 "The Holy Land is everywhere." --Black ElkThe two epigraphs that preface Angela Alaimo…
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"Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." --Exodus 3:5 "The Holy Land is everywhere." --Black ElkThe two epigraphs that preface Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's Holy Land introduce the reader to the central theme that permeates her poems: that holy places deserve to be regarded with reverence and that all places are holy places. In her afterward, the poet traces these foundational concepts to her Catholic childhood wherein religious instruction consisted largely of memorizing the Baltimore Catechism. "One of questions the Catechism poses is 'Where is God?' The answer is 'God is everywhere.' We believed this to be true. God was in church, but God was also in our house (a crucifix in every room), in the backyard, in our Buick (rosary beads swinging from the rearview mirror), at our birthday parties in the basement, and in