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Eleanor among the Saints
Book • 2024
Rachel Mann's 'Eleanor Among the Saints' is a poetry collection that reimagines and inhabits the figure of Eleanor John Reichenor, exploring themes of identity, remembrance, sanctity, and the language of mourning.
The poems move between historical imagination and contemporary urgency, attending to how names and ritual shape communal memory.
Mann, a priest and scholar, brings liturgical and poetic sensibilities to bear on stories of marginalised lives, including trans experiences.
Through repeated invocations, lists of names, and liturgical echoes, the book interrogates how communities remember and consecrate the dead.
The collection balances empathy and critique, asking readers to consider both the comfort and the limits of commemorative language.
The poems move between historical imagination and contemporary urgency, attending to how names and ritual shape communal memory.
Mann, a priest and scholar, brings liturgical and poetic sensibilities to bear on stories of marginalised lives, including trans experiences.
Through repeated invocations, lists of names, and liturgical echoes, the book interrogates how communities remember and consecrate the dead.
The collection balances empathy and critique, asking readers to consider both the comfort and the limits of commemorative language.
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