{"product_id":"scriptorium-poems-national-poetry-series","title":"Scriptorium: Poems (National Poetry Series)","description":"National Poetry Series Winner\n\nA collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia—with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith\n\nThe poems in Scriptorium 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.\n\nIn addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, Scriptorium 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 Scriptorium, 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0807094447\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0807094447.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Range, Melissa|Smith, Tracy K.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41444837982266,"sku":"DBV.0807094447.G","price":6.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0807094447-0.jpg?v=1780680379","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/scriptorium-poems-national-poetry-series","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}