Sleeping Preacher (Pitt Poetry Series) [Paperback]

Julia Spicher Kasdorf (Author)

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"Kasdorf chronicles her difficult journey from the Mennonite community into which she was born to a secular life in New York City. The material presents an interesting and unusually close portrait of the Amish people--for the most part without sentimentality. . . . Paradoxically, the speaker justifies her new way of life by citing the lessons she learned as a child."
--Publishers Weekly

 “This is as good as poetry gets. The poems are tightly wrung, sweetness and pain intermingled.”
--Festival Quarterly

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press; 1 edition (November 19, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082295480X
• ISBN-13: 978-0822954804
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,589,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful contradictions, August 27, 2000

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This review is from: Sleeping Preacher (Pitt Poetry Series) (Paperback)

a book which displays a complex author and her complexity amplifies your own. a weaving together of old and new, past and present, country and urban, so intricate it seems seamless. beautiful spirituality, shows the power of ones memories, the truth of experience.