{"product_id":"a-book-of-psalms-alan-baker-9781837380176","title":"A Book of Psalms","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Book of Psalms is about a life retrieved in which the commonplace is made new in poetry and everyday experience is undramatically revealed as approaching the miraculous. Gazing through the windows of the public library offers a prosaic starkness, 'Leaking radiators, polished floors, books on everyday wellness' somehow transformed via a 'Leaf-vein atlas suddenly awake to sun on wings, ' so that in a playground, at the side of the road with cars passing, we are with 'a local deity of the edgelands.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in this newly entered world this poet sees the immiseration of the dispossessed for what it is; tent cities in the underpass and men at traffic lights cleaning windscreens, fit subject for elegy and lament from a poet equal to the task. Baker's declarative lyricism is a lifeline sustained throughout these 64 psalms. This is not just a poet writing poetry with its usual tricks and epiphanies. Baker has taken Sidney's advice and looked in his heart to write. In this way the marketplace in town is a vision of the world with poetry in its very bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'And all the people chilled and shouting their wares\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeemed living words that carry a history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each syllable a song in every vowel'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Kelvin Corcoran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1837380171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781837380176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Alan Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437868986623,"sku":"9781837380176","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70b3a0d0-b64f-4c64-9859-9560510c8f30.jpg?v=1777167323","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-book-of-psalms-alan-baker-9781837380176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}