A review by mariannemersereau
The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman by Katie Manning

5.0

I have a special affinity for books that flesh out the stories of unnamed women who appear in biblical stories, and Manning's collection of poems giving voice to the woman who was healed by touching the hem of Jesus' robe is one of the best I've read. "Some of us answered to Hey You" she writes in one poem, "and had no existence outside stories." Manning successfully employs her creativity, imaginative powers and poetic skills to fill in many of the missing blanks in this amazing Gospel story.