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The title of Katie Manning’s Hereverent offers readers a first glimpse into the fierce but gentle heart that propels life through this collection. An author-created neologism, the portmanteau of “heretical” and “reverent” describes these poems born out of Manning’s frustration with watching people take language from the Bible and weaponize it against other people. At times barbed and challenging, and at other times playful and joyous, this work is a portal into another universe for any reader who understands that love and kindness are truly sacred.
—Agape Editions

With her signature wit and warmth and keen intelligence, Katie Manning has—with her astonishing Hereverent—brought her midrashic imagination into the service of an inclusive corrective to the pharisaical anxieties that have, of late, threatened to erode the compassion and joy of the Gospel. May it be blessed.
—Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems and Anaphora: New Poems

I love this clipped voice—just the essentials—eclectic, irreverently reverent, or is it reverently irreverent—
—Diane Glancy, author of A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story and Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit

Scholars and theologians have been discussing the function and power of Biblical language for much of the last hundred years. Some have called for a de-mythologizing of how we understand Scripture, so that the original power and glory of the language of God can be experienced, renewing our awe and wonder. During this time, it has fallen to poets to try to craft this new language, to de-mytholgize texts with thousands of years of dogma and interpretation behind them. Into that fray wades Katie Manning. With clever excisions and deft lineation, Manning reinvigorates our understanding, our sense of what might be happening in those passages we know can’t be as simple as we hear every Sunday. From “The Book of Verbs”: “listen / my womb // do not spend your strength / on kings // it is not for kings // crave / and / let / be.” Breathing new life into Scriptural language, finding the poetry within, is no easy task. Manning shows us a way, a vast, gorgeous poetry within those words we think we know.
—Thom Caraway, editor of Rock & Sling