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Finalist, 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry
Prelude delineates the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood of Catherine of Siena, a Catholic saint who lived in 1300s Italy and disobeyed her parents by refusing marriage to devote her life to God. Through a historical lens, Brynne Rebele-Henry examines the erasure of gay women's lives and offers a perspective of medieval queer girlhood while considering themes such as violence, desire, and the lesbian body.
Prelude delineates the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood of Catherine of Siena, a Catholic saint who lived in 1300s Italy and disobeyed her parents by refusing marriage to devote her life to God. Through a historical lens, Brynne Rebele-Henry examines the erasure of gay women's lives and offers a perspective of medieval queer girlhood while considering themes such as violence, desire, and the lesbian body.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Note
- Prelude to Becoming Holy
- As a girl I believed in
- Prelude to Stardust
- Bonaventura
- Lapa
- Introduction to Sainthood
- Absolvement
- Aubade for a Glass-Boned Saint
- Creation Myth 1
- Creation Myth 2
- Creation Myth 3
- Creation Myth 4
- Creation Myth 5
- Orchadiae
- Desiderare
- An elegy for what I could never be
- Miraculae
- Mantelatte
- Severance
- Upon Praying
- Swallow
- Matrimonio Bianco
- To turn slowly to the dusk
- In which your body is a holy object
- Countenance
- Take
- Leggera
- Gialla
- Forever moving further and further away from us
- Sessuale
- In which your body is a dead thing, birch wood, thorns, a half-prayer
- Lesbica
- Terra
- Scheletrica
- To accept (blindly)
- Assolvere
- Oscuritá
- Disintegrare
- Elegy for a Broken Sun
- Paradisum
- Niente, Niente, Niente
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
