Sleeping Preacher by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Sleeping Preacher by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

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Summary

The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.

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Sleeping Preacher by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author ofSleeping Preacher, Eve’s Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a documentary project created in collaboration with photographer Steven Rubin. She has also published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, and a biographical study, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.

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ISBN 13 9780822954804
ISBN 10 082295480X
Title Sleeping Preacher
Author Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Series Pitt Poetry Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published 1992-11-19
Number of pages 80
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.