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Years, months, and days, poems, Amanda Jernigan

Label
Years, months, and days, poems, Amanda Jernigan
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Years, months, and days
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Amanda Jernigan
Sub title
poems
Summary
A transfiguration of Die Gemeinschaftliche Liedersammlung-a collection of Protestant hymns originally compiled by a Pennsylvanian-born Swiss-German Mennonite-into heart-breaking lyric poems that bridge secular spirituality and holy reverence with the commonalities of life, death, love, hope, and pain. With a quiet musicality, Jernigan explores the connection between hymn and poem, between death and birth. In a sparse and tender meditation on the possibilities of translation that she describes as 'an offering of words to music,' Jernigan celebrates a shared love and landscape that breathes music into poem and prayer alike
Target audience
adult
Classification
Content

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