Glad Hand of God Points Backwards
Mennies, Rachel 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, ass...