The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems employ a trinity of sequences that address a present, past, and possible future--from a troubled reckoning with belief to loss and promise still ahead. In this debut collection from Jennie Malboeuf, we observe undercurrents of violence and power, the dynamics of memory, gender, marriage, and miscarriage. At times, God is brutal. At…mehr
The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems employ a trinity of sequences that address a present, past, and possible future--from a troubled reckoning with belief to loss and promise still ahead. In this debut collection from Jennie Malboeuf, we observe undercurrents of violence and power, the dynamics of memory, gender, marriage, and miscarriage. At times, God is brutal. At times, delicate. Through true stories of animal savagery, God had a body unravels human behavior and undoes the opaque and cryptic mysteries of faith.
Born and raised in Kentucky, Jennie Malboeuf received a BA at Centre College and an MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, VQR, the Southern Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, David, and dog, Mavis. She teaches writing at Guilford College.
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Acknowledgments The Godhead Part I First Death Ever Filmed Christ is a Great Blue Heron The Cow's Eye Animals in the Bible Frog Gig, 1983 Some Things Have Been Heard Enough Grackles Wilding Ruth Sacred Heart Animals The Meaning of God A Figure for the Holy Ghost Part II The Country Orrery The Leonids Early Signs of the Apocalypse Zoonosis Song of the Cock Men in My Bed as Dead Animal in Dog Mouth al Meal Landscape Where I Forget My Father Blindfold Animals in Captivity The Nightjar phylum The Giving Away Repletion Snakehandling Fear What the Eclipse Does to Animals The Miracle of the Pigs Landscape Where I Miss My Mother Phobia, 1985 lullaby Grandmothers The Men In the Myths Kingdom Hubris The Women First Mirror The Screwworm Mnemonics Ode to the Cannibal Man, Beast, Lion, Bird God-man Inscape Thought Inventory with Rorschach and Caesura Letting Go Topography of a Bird Part III Newfound Star System Double Star- Orbs The Godwit To Begin With Heavy Animals, or Frustrated Attempts to See God Immolation The Hydra Eschatology The Gospels The Lesser Water Boatman Orgasm as Lapwing Erection Valentine The Quickening Wedding Night Elfland Nesting flying change Strawberry Moon Honest Signals Reasons We Should Be Together The Night We Decided Was a Day
Acknowledgments The Godhead Part I First Death Ever Filmed Christ is a Great Blue Heron The Cow's Eye Animals in the Bible Frog Gig, 1983 Some Things Have Been Heard Enough Grackles Wilding Ruth Sacred Heart Animals The Meaning of God A Figure for the Holy Ghost Part II The Country Orrery The Leonids Early Signs of the Apocalypse Zoonosis Song of the Cock Men in My Bed as Dead Animal in Dog Mouth al Meal Landscape Where I Forget My Father Blindfold Animals in Captivity The Nightjar phylum The Giving Away Repletion Snakehandling Fear What the Eclipse Does to Animals The Miracle of the Pigs Landscape Where I Miss My Mother Phobia, 1985 lullaby Grandmothers The Men In the Myths Kingdom Hubris The Women First Mirror The Screwworm Mnemonics Ode to the Cannibal Man, Beast, Lion, Bird God-man Inscape Thought Inventory with Rorschach and Caesura Letting Go Topography of a Bird Part III Newfound Star System Double Star- Orbs The Godwit To Begin With Heavy Animals, or Frustrated Attempts to See God Immolation The Hydra Eschatology The Gospels The Lesser Water Boatman Orgasm as Lapwing Erection Valentine The Quickening Wedding Night Elfland Nesting flying change Strawberry Moon Honest Signals Reasons We Should Be Together The Night We Decided Was a Day
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