Sleeping Preacher

by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Overview

Sleeping Preacher was chosen from more than 900 first-book manuscripts as the winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822979296
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	11/19/1992
Series:	Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	653 KB

About the Author

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of Sleeping Preacher, Eve’s Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a documentary project created in collaboration with photographer Steven Rubin. She has also published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, and a biographical study, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.

Editorial Reviews

Winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Kasdorf chronicles her difficult journey from the Mennonite community into which she was born to a secular life in New York City. The material presents an interesting and unusually close portrait of the Amish people—for the most part without sentimentality. . . . Paradoxically, the speaker justifies her new way of life by citing the lessons she learned as a child."
—Publishers Weekly


 “This is as good as poetry gets. The poems are tightly wrung, sweetness and pain intermingled.”
—Festival Quarterly

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