Wicked bible
McFadden, Kevin Joseph, Department of English, University of Virginia
Orr, Gregory, E0:AS-Creative Writing, University of Virginia
Dove, Rita, E0:AS-Creative Writing, University of Virginia
A compilation of poems.
MFA (Master of Fine Arts)
THE "BIBLE" POEMS derive their titles from notoriously misprinted editions of the Bible in English, a listing of which may be found in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Fifteenth edition, HarperCollins, 1995, London).
THE "VARIATIONS" POEMS are exact anagrammatic recombinations--letter for letter—of the borrowed line within each poem. The seminal lines are respectively taken from Ecclesiastes 1:9, poem #324 by Emily Dickinson, "The Gift Outright" by Robert Frost, the essay "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson and "Code Book Lost" by Robert Penn Warren.
IN "AIDS TEST, " THE THREE LETTERS of Jehovah's name (IRV from the tetragrammaton IHVH) are rearranged according to the dimensions of space, as is described in the first chapter of the Sefer Yetsirah.
English
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
2000
