{"product_id":"9780807094457","title":"Scriptorium: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of poems exploring questions of religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. 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","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070574543088,"sku":"9780807094457","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807094457_p0.jpg?v=1763739433","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807094457","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}