The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards

The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards"Coming of age as a Jewish woman in America" In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman s relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love, and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to our God, the collector of stories and bodies, a force somehow responsible for

"Coming of age as a Jewish woman in America"
In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman s relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love, and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to our God, the / collector of stories / and bodies, a force somehow responsible for both death and liberation. Here, Mennies examines survival, assimilation, and intermarriage, subjects bound together by complex, if sometimes compromised, ties to the speaker s Judaism. Through wit and careful prosody, "The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards "lays bare the struggles and triumphs experienced through a teenage girl s coming of age, showing the reader what it means to becomeand remaina Jewish woman in America."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 04/15/2014
ISBN: 9780896728547
Pages: 79
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist