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Poems
出版Red Hen Press, 2013
主題Poetry / GeneralPoetry / American / GeneralPoetry / Women Authors
ISBN15970923989781597092395
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=owqQmwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The second collection by Nicelle Davis, Becoming Judas, is an “elemental bible-diary-manifesto, ” that weaves together Mormonism, Mamaism, Manson, Lennon, Kabbalah, and the lost Gospel of Judas into am ecstatic, searing meditation on raw religion. Nicelle Davis is a poet with an eye towards the spiritual. Loosely based on Davis's upbringing in the back-room of a record store in Mormonville, Utah, this unexpected fusion becomes a “spontaneous combustion” of matter turning into energy. In these poems we encounter Jesus, Judas, YouTube, Joseph Smith, Hollywood, the Knights of Templar, Missouri, Utah, a prostitute, turnips, libraries, and God. Spirituality and faith eventually become, like Mallarmé's “Dice Thrown, ” a game of chance: “I know only chance. My feet will / won't hit ground.” Instead of choosing a faith based in the material world, which becomes a roll of the dice, Davis embraces the non-material of a pure energy: Let there be light.