Radioapocrypha
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Word Count
18,250 words, Guess
Page Count
73 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100814254640
- ISBN-139780814254646
- Library of Congress Control Number2017041986
- OCLC Control Number1000040286
- Open LibraryOL26949124M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3606.I764 R33 2018
Description
"A novella in verse, Radioapocrypha envisions what would have happened if Jesus Christ had arrived for the first time not in Palestine two thousand years ago but in a subdivision in Maryland in 1989, the year Depeche Mode released "Personal Jesus." In this suburban retelling of the gospel, Jesus is a hunky post-punk high school chemistry teacher and the disciples are a twelve-member garage band. The story unfolds as recorded testimony and overheard teachings, a series of alternating lyric poems, prose poems, and parables that engage the social, sexual, and racial tensions of an era. Told from the point of view of the Magdalen character, named Maren--and drawing from the Gnostic text known as the Gospel of Mary as well as other scriptural sources--these poems sample widely from popular music and 1980s culture to recast and revivify a gritty, surreal, crackpot story of loners, losers, and lovers"--
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