Animal Gospels
Book Details
Author(s)Brian Barker
PublisherTupelo Press
ISBN / ASIN1932195270
ISBN-139781932195279
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,484,057
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The Animal Gospels is a collection of lyric-narrative poems that explore faith, identity, loss, racism, the transience of being, and coming of age in the South at the end of the 20th century.
Many of the poems tap into the mythic and totemic power of animals in an attempt to bridge the gap between the past and the present, remembering and forgetting, personal history and public history. The book as a whole is shaped by an abiding faith in story, song, and the redemptive power of memory and imagination.
Many of the poems tap into the mythic and totemic power of animals in an attempt to bridge the gap between the past and the present, remembering and forgetting, personal history and public history. The book as a whole is shaped by an abiding faith in story, song, and the redemptive power of memory and imagination.
