Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Enitharmon Somali-English dual language edition

Somali-English dual language edition

Exquisite – a beautifully-written

is a work of great power from one of our most cherished and humane poets

Jane Ayres

that opens the grief up — no

Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Enitharmon Somali-English dual language editionIn 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