Prelude by Brynne Rebele-Henry

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Finalist, 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry Prelude delineates the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood of Catherine of Siena, a Catholic saint who lived in 1300s Italy and disobeyed her parents by refusing marriage to devote her life to God.

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Prelude by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of Siena

Brynne Rebele-Henry’s poetry collection, Autobiography of a Wound, won the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize, was one of Library Journal’s Top Fall Poetry Picks for 2018, and was a finalist for the 2019 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award. Her first novel, Orpheus Girl, received the 2021 Young Adult Virginia Author Award from the Richmond Public Library and was listed as one of the most anticipated YA novels by Barnes & Noble and Chicago Review of Books. She is also the author of a bilingual (English and Slovenian) chapbook, Vizije Se Začnejo Pri Šestih (Visions Begin at Six), and is a 2021–2022 Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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ISBN 13 9780822966883
ISBN 10 0822966883
Title Prelude
Author Brynne Rebele-Henry
Series Pitt Poetry Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published 2022-05-28
Number of pages 72
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.