Idiot Psalms: New Poems
Scott CairnsPaperback 2014-02-01
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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.
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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.