Tongue Screws and Testimonies

Poems, Stories, and Essays Inspired by the Martyrs Mirror

de Kirsten Eve Beachy (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : MennoMedia

novembre 2010

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Résumé

From the publisher of Martyrs Mirror comes this refreshing, reflective, heartbreaking, humorous—and sometimes irreverent—anthology of poems, creative essays and fiction by new and noted authors with connections to the Anabaptist tradition.

Featuring writers such as Rudy Wiebe, Di Brandt, Jeff Gundy, Jean Janzen, Julia Kasdorf, John Ruth, Rhoda Janzen and others, Tongue Screws and Testimonies shows how stories from Martyrs Mirror intersect with the lives of writers and their characters—and how these stories continue to have a powerful hold on faith, life and imagination today.

Collected and edited by Kirsten Eve Beachy, who teaches writing at Eastern Mennonite University, Tongue Screws and Testimonies challenges readers to consider the implications of Martyrs Mirror in their own lives.

“Tongue Screws and Testimonies is for the young woman who remembers hiding behind the couch at her grandparents’ house to look at Jan Luykens’ engravings, and who still gets chills thinking about it. It’s for the man who, drawn into a Mennonite congregation in middle age, is trying to get a grasp of Anabaptist history. It will serve as a conversation starter with theologians of many traditions who are concerned with the difficulties of living faithfully.“—Kirsten Eve Beachy

Auteur

Kirsten Eve Beachy (Edité par)

Kirsten Eve Beachy teaches creative writing and journalism at Eastern Mennonite University. With her husband, Jason Alderfer, she raises muscovy ducks, backyard chickens, and honeybees in Briery Branch, Va. Beachy received degrees in Philosophy & Theology and Theater from Eastern Mennonite University and an MFA in creative writing from West Virginia University. Beachy was born in Goshen, Ind., and retains membership at Paoli Mennonite Fellowship, her childhood church (Paoli, Ind.). She covenants with Shalom Mennonite Church (Harrisonburg, Va.), and often attends Philippi Mennonite Church (Philippi, W. Va.) in spirit. Beachy's stories and essays appear in literary journals including Shenandoah, The Tusculum Review, Relief: a Quarterly Chrisitian Expression, Rhubarb, Dreamseeker, and others. Her short fiction can be found in Norton's anthology of Hint Fiction. She is a contributing editor to The Tusculum Review. For more information on her current projects, go to martyrbook.com or her author blog at kirstenevebeachy.wordpress.com.