The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems

by Rachel Mennies

In her first poetry collection, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896728544
• ISBN13: 9780896728547
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"