Channeling Matriarchs
Available through Finishing Line Press
OR contact me directly if you're close to Green Bay [email protected] |
Channeling Matriarchs
Available through Finishing Line Press
OR contact me directly if you're close to Green Bay [email protected] |
"A tightly-unified series of Biblical portraits, Channeling Matriarchs makes use of archetypes still relevant to present selfhood. A fine first book." |
“In the patriarchal society of the Bible, chances for a woman to be remembered at all depended largely on the fame of husband, father, brother. Through line, phrase, or sometimes single words, Lynn Aprill subtly reveals the feelings, thoughts, motives of 16 named or nameless women, giving them a life of their own. Thus, Lot’s wife looks back to mourn her sodomized daughters; Jael is recognized for her heroic killing of the Israelites’ enemy; Dinah hints that her brothers’ murder of Shechem, thereby “rescuing” her from his bed, is not at all appreciated. Channeling Matriarchs is a remarkable first-time publication by a very promising poet.” |
“To be clear I was not hungry, / not in the way you think,” declares Eve in the opening poem of Channeling Matriarchs. In clear and searing language, Lynn Aprill’s collection gives voice to the Biblical women whose sides of their stories have so long been silenced. This is an urgent, necessary collection: as Aprill’s Eve expains, “To walk / through my own world and not name it / was more than I could bear.” |