| Messiah Contributor(s): Babson, Anne (Author), Starbuck, Ron |
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ISBN: 1732054274 ISBN-13: 9781732054271 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2019941090 |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 7" W x 10" (0.44 lbs) 108 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: MESSIAH, a post-modern bop through our culture set in diverse elements of the American landscape-- from a Manhattan subway station, to mills of rural Louisiana, to the mean streets of Detroit, to the wilds of the American Northwest, to Yankee Stadium, to the hills of Bellaire -- writes back to the Bible passages with which Handel composed his Messiah Oratorio without challenging their theological meaning but setting them, as most sacred art does, in the contemporary. Anne Babson's poetry isn't "churchy," but it is replete with passionate exhortation, delighting in Americans in their imperfections and calling for a subversive conspiracy of love and a new era of compassion. The book is set to a soundtrack of American music, where the rapture trumpet is blown by Louis Armstrong, where the angels sing in doo-wop chorus, and where Handel's "Chorus: Hallelujah" turns into a Southern Rock anthem. The work is about us and our needs, our playlist, our delights, and the possibility of radical forgiveness and a return to hope. |
Contributor Bio(s): Babson, Anne: - "Anne Babson's collection The White Trash Pantheon won the Colby H. Kullman prize. Her collection Polite Occasions was featured at the 2018 Louisiana Book Festival. She wrote the libretto for the opera Lotus Lives, which has been performed in multiple cities in the United States and Canada. Her play about gun culture in the South, Reenactment, was published by Review Americana. She is the author of four chapbooks - the latest of which, Dolly Shot, was published by Dancing Girl Press. She has been anthologized in the United States and in England, most recently in the notable collection Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her work has appeared in literary journals on five continents and has won numerous editorial awards. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times. She has received residency grants from Yaddo and Vermont Studio Center. She writes and lives in New Orleans." |