Idiot Psalms
Author | : Scott Cairns |
Publisher | : Paraclete Press |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781612615165 |
ISBN-13 | : 1612615163 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging collection yet. “Idiot Psalm 1” O God Belovéd if obliquely so, dimly apprehended in the midst of this, the fraught obscuring fog of my insufficiently capacious ken, Ostensible Lover of our kind—while apparently aloof—allow that I might glimpse once more Your shadow in the land, avail for me, a second time, the sense of dire Presence in the pulsing hollow near the heart. Once more, O Lord, from Your Enormity incline your Face to shine upon Your servant, shy of immolation, if You will.