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
āAnthem,ā 18ā19
Arjuna, 33
Arnold, Matthew, 174
Art of Biblical Poetry, The, 98
āArtillery,ā 13
āAt Burt Lake,ā 191ā92
Atta, Mohammed, 30
āAubade,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, 1ā2, 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
- 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
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