{"id":555,"date":"2019-10-21T06:50:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=555"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T21:34:06","slug":"voices-the-final-hours-of-joan-of-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/voices-the-final-hours-of-joan-of-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc<\/a>
\nby David Elliott (Author)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. This biography told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc\u2019s life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood) explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Excerpts from the trials are also included. Some poems, like the one below, are displayed as concrete poems in the shape of the object that is speaking.<\/em> <\/p>\n

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A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott (Author) Booktalk: Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. This biography told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc\u2019s life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, … <\/p>\n

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