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In quietly dazzling language, Women Clothed with the Sun engages ninety women from the Old and New Testaments, the inconspicuous as well as the more prominent: Eve, Lot’s wife, Zipporah, Miriam, Judith, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, the woman at the well, the wife of Pilate, the women of Jerusalem, and others. Without a feminist axe to grind in the foreground, without pretension or piety, but fearlessly and enthusiastically, Dana Littlepage Smith has imaginatively entered into each woman’s life, by turns boldly, delicately, sensuously, intelligently, always skillfully.
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Dana Littlepage Smith, a native of Richmond, Virginia, has traveled widely and currently lives in Exeter, England. She has won a variety of prizes for her poems in both the U.K. and the U.S. She teaches in prisons, studies Chinese brush painting, and gardens. Women Clothed with the Sun is her first book.
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Smith gives poetic voices to women from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament--to Sheba and Bathsheba, to Anna, Mary, Elizabeth, and the unnamed women of Jesus' parables. Each dramatic monologue realizes emotional details left out of the biblical accounts, which are used as epigraphs. Feminist in the largest sense--that is, putting these women's reality at the center of the stories told of them--Smith's work is likely to appeal to both readers who are conventionally faith based and those whose spirituality lies outside orthodoxy. Although mostly constructed in fluid free verse, the poems show Smith's versatility with slant rhyme and complex meters as well. Individually compelling, the poems, when read as a body of work, create openings for new visions of women's spiritual lives. Patricia Monaghan
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- PublisherLSU Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0807126713
- ISBN 13 9780807126714
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In quietly dazzling language, Women Clothed with the Sun engages ninety women from the Old and New Testaments, the inconspicuous as well as the more prominent: Eve, Lot's wife, Zipporah, Miriam, Judith, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, the woman at the well, the wife of Pilate, the women of Jerusalem, and others. Without a feminist axe to grind in the foreground, without pretension or piety, but fearlessly and enthusiastically, Dana Littlepage Smith has imaginatively entered into each woman's life, by turns boldly, delicately, sensuously, intelligently, always skillfully.Smith pulls aside the veil to let each woman speak her mind. What emerges is the female humanity of the women, some caught in appalling circumstances, some freed to new heights of spiritual and physical presence, all of them lifted from the relative silence of their lives in patriarchal times and allowed to command our full attention. The poet has heard the drumming and the songs the scribes could not hear. These women have "practiced pain like a pentateuch". They have asked themselves "What is this heart you fear breaking?" And they have found answers in action, image, and word. In quietly dazzling language, Women Clothed with the Sun engages ninety women from the Old and New Testaments, the inconspicuous as well as the more prominent: Eve, Lot's wife, Zipporah, Miriam, Judith, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, the woman at the well, the wife of Pilate, the women of Jerusalem, and others. Without a feminist axe to grind in the foreground, without pretension or piety, but fearlessly and enthusiastically, Dana Littlepage Smith has imaginatively entered into each woman's life, by turns boldly, delicately, sensuously, intelligently, always skillfully. Smith pulls aside the veil to let each woman speak her mind. What emerges is the female humanity of the women, some caught in appalling circumstances, some freed to new heights of spiritual and physical presence, all of them lifted from the relative silence of their lives in patriarchal times and allowed to command our full attention. The poet has heard the drumming and the songs the scribes could not hear. These women have "practiced pain like a pentateuch" They have asked themselves "What is this heart you fear breaking?" And they have found answers in action, image, and word. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780807126714
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