Idiot Psalms: New Poems by Cairns, Scott

Idiot Psalms: New Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781612615158)

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Format: Paperback
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Idiot Psalms: New Poems by Cairns, Scott

Idiot Psalms: New Poems

$21.00
Idiot Psalms: New Poems by Cairns, Scott

Idiot Psalms: New Poems

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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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 Belov d 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.

Author: Scott Cairns
ISBN-10: 1612615155
ISBN-13: 9781612615158
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2014
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.58w x 0.23d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 12/10/2014 pg. 23
By Scott Cairns
By Scott Cairns
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Librettist, essayist, translator, and author of nine poetry collections, Scott Cairns is Professor of English and Director of the Low-Residency MFA Program at Seattle Pacific University. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.

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