Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Enitharmon Five specially selected poetry books

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There are poems with fierce empathy for women living in war-torn countries

Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Enitharmon Five specially selected poetry booksIn her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith and the limits of myth and language intersect and are tested. Eleanor Among the Saints is a study in the queer joy found in counter factuals and fantasy, shaped through the prism of the disputed story of Eleanor Rykener, a medieval trans woman, seamstress and sex worker. Carcanet