There is a Future (eBook)

A Year of Daily Midrash

Amy Bornman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
112 Seiten
Paraclete Press (Verlag)
978-1-64060-614-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable questions, felt to Amy Bornman like a poetic invitation to re-engage with the Bible in a new way. There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash – an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition – grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily midrashic poems in response to the readings—to honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the author's own life—emerging at year's end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the text's enduring questions continue to ring.

Autor

Amy Bornman is a writer, artist, and designer, living in Pittsburgh. She studied theater at Wheaton College (IL), and designs sewing patterns for her small business, All Well Workshop. You can find more from Amy at amybornman.com.   

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Paraclete Poetry
• Reihe/Serie: Paraclete Poetry
• Verlagsort: ORLEANS
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Amy Bornman • christian midrash • jewish religious literature • Midrash • midrash for christians • Old Testament • Old Testament poetry • Paraclete Poetry • Paraclete Poetry Prize • poetry and midrash • what is midrash • wheaton college • why is midrash important
• ISBN-10: 1-64060-614-9 / 1640606149
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64060-614-2 / 9781640606142