Cathedral
Keywords
Poetry metaphor church, grandmother memory, Black woman experience, intergenerational trauma, finding voice healing
Document Type
Poetry
Abstract
I’ve had the pleasure of watching Amanda Volel continue to develop as a poet in her senior year. In one poem she writes, “Poetry is a cathedral I find myself in.'" In one sense she worships in the cathedral of poetry, yet in. another, she tears that “cathedral” down. By the end of that poem, poetry is reduced to a “box that opens [her] chest.” Her work moves across the landscape of New York City picking up what she finds both literally and linguistically. As you read her work, allow yourself to live inside her poems, whether you’re in a vast cathedral in New York or inside a box near her ear.
Recommended Citation
Volel, Amanda
(2016)
"Cathedral,"
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University: Vol. 29:
Iss.
2, Article 22.
Available at:
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/amidwesternreview/vol29/iss2/22