Practice

by Dan Bellm

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Dan Bellm's third book of poems takes as its starting point the Jewish practice of studying weekly portions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in an annual cycle. Working in the midrashic tradition--imaginatively explaining or expanding a Biblical text, often well beyond its literal meaning--the poems offer meditations on faith, doubt, yearning, family ties, love and loss, and the age-old roots of modern-day...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976764253
• ISBN13: 9780976764250
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Sixteen Rivers Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"