Poets on the Psalms
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Poets on the Psalms

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Poets on the Psalms

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Reverential, celebratory, antagonistic, and even erotic, this remarkable collection of essays interprets the Psalms as a collection of poetry. Written by 14 acclaimed poets, the essays approach the Psalms from a personal, often autobiographical perspective, demonstrating how relevant they remain for today's readers. Alicia Ostriker examines the Psalms' glory and their terror in a moving essay that revels in their moods of joy while acknowledging the brutality they invoke, linking their violence to events such as 9/11, the Palestinian uprisings, and the Rwandan massacres. Weaving autobiographical anecdotes with scholarly introspection, Enid Dame provides a Jewish explanation of Psalm 22, while editor Lynn Domina contemplates the pastoral life as she connects the everyday with phrases from the Psalms. From a former nun to a self-described left-wing Jew, from a Midrashic scholar to a Texas rancher, the contributors mirror the wide swath of humanity interested in, and affected by, the Psalms.

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INDEX

Adam, 54, 91
Adorno, Theodor, 182
Aeneid, 14
Alter, Robert, 64, 98
America, 84
American Bandstand, 96
American Pie, 181
Andrews, Tom, 190, 191
Answer to Job, 182
ā€œAnthem,ā€ 18–19
Arjuna, 33
Arnold, Matthew, 174
Art of Biblical Poetry, The, 98
ā€œArtillery,ā€ 13
ā€œAt Burt Lake,ā€ 191–92
Atta, Mohammed, 30
ā€œAubade,ā€ 173
Auden, W. H., 25, 27
Augustine, 105, 110, 189
Baptists, 8, 104, 106
Baudelaire, Charles, 110
Bells in Winter, 178
Benedict, 136
Bhagavad Gita, 33
Bin Laden, Osama, 30
Bishop, Elizabeth, 36, 189
Blake, William, 33, 93
Body in Pain, The, 176
Book of Common Prayer, 132, 138, 145, 147
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 31
Brueggemann, Walter, 138, 142, 143, 149
Buber, Martin, 98
Buddha, 102
Buddhism, 154
Callaloo, 18
Canada, 2
Catholicism, 1–2, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 93, 94, 95
Catullus, 20
Celan, Paul, 34, 182, 183, 187
Christianity, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 141, 169
Christmas, 112, 113
Church of England, 8
Codeine Diary, 190
Cohen, Arthur, 182
Collins, Billy, 20
Coolio, 80
Corinthians I, book of, 67
Coverdale, Myles, 132
Craig, David, 158
Crenshaw, James L., 108
Crow, Loren D., 140, 141, 145, 147
Dahood, Mitchell, 133
Daniel, book o...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. The Secret Life of Poetry and the Psalms
  7. On Restiveness—in Art, in Life: The Psalms
  8. Psalm and Anti-Psalm: A Personal Interlude
  9. Lover, Dark and Dangerous
  10. Psalm 22 and the Gospels: A Midrashic Moment and a Hope for Connection
  11. Of Time and Vision
  12. Psalm 23
  13. I Shall Not Want: The Twenty-third Psalm Comes to Cleveland, Ohio
  14. Want
  15. ’Tis the Season: Holidays, Harvests, and the Psalms
  16. Upon the Floods
  17. ā€œThe Devices and Desires of Our Own Heartsā€: Reflections on Blessing and Curse in the Songs of Ascent
  18. Rereading the Psalms
  19. Lamentation, Poetry, and the Double Life
  20. Contributors’ Notes
  21. Index
  22. Index of Psalms Cited