Title:
Island of the innocent : a consideration on the Book of Job / Diane Glancy.
ISBN:
9781885983800
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Brooklyn, New York : Turtle Point Press, [2020]
Physical Description:
207 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
May lit the sky -- Dormer -- A treatise on suffering in Uz -- Now you are more yourself -- Touching the almighty, we cannot find him out -- Extirpate -- Versions of the many-versions-of-Greasy-grass -- Alternative facts -- History (2) by interlocutory -- May it work -- My own Uz -- Sometimes a door closes in its place -- Abstract -- More than content is the manner in which it is held -- I have sewed sackcloth to my skin -- I will drop by unannounced -- She was first to speak -- Butter beans -- Job, the comet man -- Storiation -- Friends arrive -- Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar -- Elihu the weather-man arrives -- Behemoth speaks for himself and Leviathan -- Certain days gave him trouble -- Jehorah -- With dreams upon my bed -- Comet-man's wife -- The long arc of my driving -- Abstract -- Until the times of restitution -- Pretend -- An ordinary day to work -- The so-called ostrich speech -- He liveth -- He have nothing to do the rest of the day but jumping -- Leave the wife alone let her fire up her toaster
The taken parts of a text -- Clarification for the knitting and fabric-arts club of Uz -- Bridge -- How can I keep from happening this? -- The questioning -- Lament for the animals -- There was in Uz -- Fluvial -- He dressed me for the pretend cold -- An act of invasion -- I, Job -- Driving through snow across Ohio, January 12, 2018 -- What she cooked in white lard on the wood stove -- Where does the river go at night? -- A controlled burn -- There is Job in his yard chair -- Yet trouble came -- Dear general -- You have heard of the patience of Job -- Job in the interstice I -- Job in the interstice II -- Job in the interstice III -- Job in the interstice IV -- Fly swatter-meat cleaver -- for the standard kitchen -- Therefore, the where were you? speech of Job chapter 38-41 after which Job repents -- The first (observed) black hole Cygnus X-1, The first hen (Raphaella) -- A mole in Uz -- Job's wife -- American villanelle -- Addendum -- Travel from Pittsburgh [again]/writing the versions: a recurrence of variation -- The bat house -- Unicorn -- Writing -- Jump suit -- Where is the is that is is?
Summary:
"There is much mystery surrounding the Book of Job. Who was he? Where was he? What prompts Job's "comforters" to accuse him of wrong-doing as the cause of his suffering? When were Job's words written? How did Job's wife endure her husband's ordeals? And who is innocent among us? Island of the Innocent's narrative dramatizes how the way one looks at something shapes and changes what is seen. Voices of the trials of the Native American interject themselves into the text. There is Custer riding toward the Little Bighorn. There is a Native American doll in a museum, taken from a battlefield in western Nebraska after the massacre of Ash Hollow. There is Job, sitting in his yard chair in discomfort, among the falling leaves and his three friends.And finally, Jehorah. Only Diane Glancy could create the missing story of Job's wife, unsilencing this biblical character and endowing her suffering with meaning. Here is Jehorah in "Job's Wife" Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1119619480
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
