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- English
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Poets on the Psalms
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Secret Life of Poetry and the Psalms
- On Restivenessāin Art, in Life: The Psalms
- Psalm and Anti-Psalm: A Personal Interlude
- Lover, Dark and Dangerous
- Psalm 22 and the Gospels: A Midrashic Moment and a Hope for Connection
- Of Time and Vision
- Psalm 23
- I Shall Not Want: The Twenty-third Psalm Comes to Cleveland, Ohio
- Want
- āTis the Season: Holidays, Harvests, and the Psalms
- Upon the Floods
- āThe Devices and Desires of Our Own Heartsā: Reflections on Blessing and Curse in the Songs of Ascent
- Rereading the Psalms
- Lamentation, Poetry, and the Double Life
- Contributorsā Notes
- Index
- Index of Psalms Cited