Seedlip and Sweet Apple
Poems
by Arra Lynn Ross
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Pub Date Apr 01 2010 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Advance Praise
"Ross's
powerful collection inevitably recalls Robert Peters's The Gift to
Be
Simple (1975) and she is no less penetrating of Mother Ann's
psyche.
But whereas Peters's stubby-lined, intense, physical style kindled fire,
Ross's longer lines, occasional prose poems and narrative episodes,
documentary interjections, and employment of voices other than Ann's
feel broader, cooler, more rested in the Lord, at last."
- Booklist
“Seedlip and Sweet Apple marks the birth of a star. Radical and transgressive young poet and writer Arra Ross has made a miraculous text of narrative and speech fragments—from Sappho to Jesus, from Milton to Blake, from ‘broken bits of Mohawk’ and newspaper accounts—to raise up Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, her ecstatic voice, energy, and vision. If, as Yeats promised, ‘soul clap its hands and sing,’ here she is, on the page, in the ear: Ann Lee in the historical world, harmed and holy, brave, alive and in community, ‘a woman sowing seeds at the break of day.’” —Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid
"A
creative and compelling rendering of a strange and charismatic leader.
Ross's poems catch the dangers and the challenges of this woman who
heard God's whisperings, lost four children to early deaths, journeyed
to the New World in 1744, used her body with others to warm a room with
dance, and rejoiced in the sight of a deer or the pleasures of watching
rosehip tea steaming in the sun."
- Spirituality & Practice
- Feminist Review
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781571314345 |
PRICE | 16.00 |
PAGES | 88 |