{"product_id":"scriptorium-book-melissa-range-9780807094440","title":"Scriptorium","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Poetry Series Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia-with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eScriptorium\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, \u003ci\u003eScriptorium\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eScriptorium\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599003689233,"sku":"GOR013332692","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731322085649,"sku":"NGR9780807094440","price":18.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367063654673,"sku":"CIN0807094447G","price":6.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51713980760337,"sku":"CIN0807094447VG","price":6.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52639805899025,"sku":"GOR014574287","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807094447.jpg?v=1751264236","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/scriptorium-book-melissa-range-9780807094440","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}