Scriptorium by Melissa Range
National Poetry Series WinnerA collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia-with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
The poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. 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.
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 Tennessee upbringing. Throughout Scriptorium, the historical mingles with the personal- poems about medieval art, theology, and verse share space with poems that chronicle personal struggles with faith and doubt.
Melissa Range received honors and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Antiquarian Society, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), and the Rona Jaffe Foundation for her poetry collection Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Range is originally from East Tennessee and now teaches at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807094440 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807094447 |
| Title | Scriptorium |
| Author | Melissa Range |
| Series | National Poetry Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Year published | 2016-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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