{"product_id":"the-glad-hand-of-god-points-backwards-poems-paperback-1","title":"The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Mennies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert A. Fink\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love, and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to \"our God, the \/ collector of stories \/ and bodies,\" a force somehow responsible for both death and liberation. Here, Mennies examines survival, assimilation, and intermarriage, subjects bound together by complex, if sometimes compromised, ties to the speaker's Judaism. Through wit and careful prosody, The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards lays bare the struggles and triumphs experienced through a teenage girl's coming of age, showing the reader what it means to become--and remain--a Jewish woman in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Mennies\u003c\/b\u003e's poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCimarron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and have been reprinted at \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Jewish Book Award (2015)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449784615090,"sku":"9780896728547","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/962bd01ffd065cfe27d9a7361ed23297.webp?v=1778772413","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-glad-hand-of-god-points-backwards-poems-paperback-1","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}