Imago, Dei

(By Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose)

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“Book Descriptions: How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if not whole, how does she piece together some kind of coherent self out of fragmented half-truths? The eighteen narrative poems in Imago, Dei bear witness to the emotional and psychological weight amassed from a girlhood fraught with vexed messages about what it means to be “good.” Narrated in third-person, lyric vignettes, these are poems about a daughter’s desire to be the son her well-meaning, but deeply damaged father thinks he needs; about an adolescent world filled with cute boys, predatory church leaders, Lakes of Fire, and broken girls who beg to be reborn; about the bad-girl specters of Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah that haunt her into adulthood and wreak havoc on her intimate relationships; about dirty dancing, Bible study, Lacanian theory, and crying after sex; and about what happens when a recovering evangelical becomes a mother to her own daughters.

Winner of the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize, Imago, Dei is a poetry collection from the author of Wild Things.”

Imago, Dei

I Will Pass Even to Acheron

Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet

The Death of a Migrant Worker

The Fight Journal: Poems

The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky

Last Night in Montreal

The Singer's Gun

To Those Who Were Our First Gods

Future Home of the Living God

The Hurting Kind: Poems

The Carrying

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Cheap Motels of My Youth

Liberation Day

The Trees Witness Everything

Time Is a Mother

The Awful Rowing Toward God