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<b>A collection of poems exploring questions of religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia</b><br><br><b>A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith</b><br><br>The poems in <i>Scriptorium</i> are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious ideas are codified in writing and a place where an individual scribe might, with a sly movement of the pen, express unorthodox religious thoughts and experiences. In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, <i>Scriptorium</i> also addresses the authority of the vernacular in various time periods and places, particularly in the Appalachian slang of the authorâEuros East Tennessee upbringing. Throughout <i>Scriptorium</i>, the historical mingles with the personal: poems about medieval art, theology, and verse share space with poems that chronicle personal struggles with faith and doubt.