Erase Genesis by Rebecca Gayle Howell

Erase Genesis

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Erase Genesis

Bridwell Press

Erase Genesis

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"The earth / the earth / the earth / said"

In Erase Genesis, critically-acclaimed Kentucky poet and translator Rebecca Gayle Howell transforms the KJV creation story for the climate change age. Devoted to the same three chapters, Howell's erasures raise a new myth--a story of the Earth's intimacy with us. Here, man is not given dominion. Instead, the trees and the waters keep eternity, and the Lord Woman seeds tenderness as the only way forward.

A book-length poem with its roots in art, ecopoetry, progressive spirituality, and literary translation--Erase Genesis dismantles centuries of hurt as we bare our beginning anew, in abundance with Earth's divine call:

"Be light and / let be"
Book Details
Publisher:
Bridwell Press
ISBN:
9781957946320
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
160
Authors:
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Published Date:
2026-04-28
Language:
English
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About Rebecca Gayle Howell

A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Rebecca Gayle Howell holds degrees from the University of Kentucky, an MFA from Drew University, and a PhD from Texas Tech University. Her first book, Render / An Apocalypse (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), was selected by Nick Flynn for the press's First Book Prize. American Purgatory (Black Spring Press Group, 2017) was chosen by Don Share for the Sexton Prize. She translated Amal al-Jubouri's Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation. Named a United States Artists Fellow in 2019, she received the Aiken Taylor Award in 2025 and edits poetry for Oxford American.

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