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* Author name: Holli Carrell
* ISBN: 9780997807691, 0997807695
* Publisher: Perugia Press
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: September
* Publication Date Day: 15
* Page count: 142
* Format: Paperback
* Description: Holli Carrell’s debut poetry collection APOSTASIES explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a repressive and patriarchal American religious ideology. Interweaving prose, documentary poems, translations, erasures, and spare, imagistic lyrics, APOSTASIES aims to recover and reclaim the body by its own definition. Casting her experience within the broader narrative of Mormonism, Carrell unpacks the fraught history of gender and polygamy in nineteenth-century Mormonism, exposing the sexual predation and grooming tactics used by Joseph Smith—Mormonism’s founder—on his thirty-three “wives,” many of whom were fourteen to eighteen years old at the time of their marriage. Courageous and defiant, the poems in APOSTASIES ultimately celebrate doubt and disobedience; they challenge oppressive constructions of womanhood and cisnormativity, in particular rejecting motherhood, “obedience,” and religious traditions that vilify independent thought and bodily autonomy.
* Language (for non-English books): English
* Link to book: https://asterismbooks.com/product/apo...