Incarnation, Again
Poems
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
In her debut collection, Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo depicts coming of age in a clergy household with playful and reverent ambivalence. The poems wrestle with sacred texts, family life, and sexuality with equal intimacy. Whether encountering the Eucharist, a cremation ghat, the red-light district, or literature, these poems can't stop asking questions about living in a body.
Endorsements (3)
“Incarnation, Again is stunningly original and stylistically deft, often funny and always surprising. Grounded in a Christian family background, the book joyfully embraces other religions, rereads Christian Scripture through a contemporary lens, and marries spirituality and sensuality: incarnation indeed!”
“‘I was born first to ritual, came / even in utero to the Word,’ writes Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo in her radiant debut collection. This splendid poetic examination of contemporary spirituality beautifully investigates how the transcendent and the corporeal intertwine, jostle, and paradoxically coexist. In a time of division and absolutes, this book is an important corrective, a balm for the soul, a blessing for contemporary seekers.”
“In her debut collection, Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo shows how a life twists as a vine from the earth into the heavens through prayer. The speaker rescues and resuscitates theologies again and again from superficial human division and begs us to merge the flesh and spirit. I return to these poems not for answers but to deepen my questions.”
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