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Scriptorium : poems / Melissa Range ; selected and with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith.

by Range, Melissa, 1973-

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Beacon Press, 2016.

American poetry -- 21st century.

National poetry series.

9780807094440 (pbk.)

xii, 78 p. ; 22 cm.

Some copies may be permabound.

Verdigris -- Labyrinth, Chartres -- Ashburnham -- A Skiff of Snow -- Orpiment -- Negative Theology -- Kermes Red -- Flat as a Flitter -- Navajo Code Talkers, WWII -- Tyrian Purple -- Pigs (see Swine) -- Ofermod -- Lampblack -- Fortunes of Men -- Nicodemus Makes an Analysis -- Biblia Pauperum -- Minium -- Anagram: See a Gray Pine -- Solidus of the Empress Irene, AD 797-802 -- Incarnational Theology -- Woad -- Hit -- Vernacular Theology: Mechthild of Magdeburg -- To Swan -- Ultramarine -- Crooked as a Dog's Hind Leg -- All Creation Wept -- The Giants' Sword Melts -- Gold LEaf -- Cento: Natural Theology -- Regionalism -- Scriptorium -- Shell White.

"Poems primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious ideas are codified in writing and a place where an individual scribe might, with a sly movement of the pen, express unorthodox religious thoughts and experiences. In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, Scriptorium also addresses the authority of the vernacular in various time periods and places, particularly in the Appalachian slang of the author's East Tennessee upbringing. The historical mingles with the personal: poems about medieval art, theology, and verse share space with poems that chronicle personal struggles with faith and doubt. Melissa Range is the author of the poetry collection Horse and Rider (2010). Originally from East Tennessee, Range currently lives in Wisconsin and teaches at Lawrence University"--Provided by publisher.

American poetry.

Smith, Tracy K.

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