In this provocative study of the Song of Songs, Carey Ellen Walsh investigates desire and its connections to our experiences of the world and the divine. In the erotic language arrayed throughout the Song's poetry, Walsh finds a scriptural text that celebrates human passion through bold images of hunger, intoxication, and the plants and animals of nature. Drawing from theories of gender, ecology, and Womanism, among others, Walsh offers a celebration of desire's importance within both human life and sacred scripture.
