{"product_id":"9780807094440","title":"Scriptorium: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Poetry Series Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia—with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eScriptorium\u003c\/i\u003e are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious ideas are codified in writing and a place where an individual scribe might, with a sly movement of the pen, express unorthodox religious thoughts and experiences. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, \u003ci\u003eScriptorium\u003c\/i\u003e also addresses the authority of the vernacular in various time periods and places, particularly in the Appalachian slang of the author’s East Tennessee upbringing. Throughout \u003ci\u003eScriptorium\u003c\/i\u003e, the historical mingles with the personal: poems about medieval art, theology, and verse share space with poems that chronicle personal struggles with faith and doubt.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42944774340669,"sku":"9780807094440","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780807094440_p0.jpg?v=1771581216","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780807094440","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}