Scriptorium Range Melissa
Scriptorium Range Melissa A collection of poems exploring questions of religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary AppalachiaA National Poetry Series winner, selected…
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Scriptorium Range Melissa
A collection of poems exploring questions of religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary AppalachiaA National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Tracy K. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious ideas are codified in writing and a place where an individual scribe might, with a sly movement of the pen, express unorthodox religious thoughts and experiences. SmithThe poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority.
In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, Scriptorium also addresses the authority of the vernacular in various time periods and places, particularly in the Appalachian slang of the author's East