num_pages: 80
description: Winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.
language: English
title: Sleeping Preacher
titlecomplete: Sleeping Preacher
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 105
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press