Idiot Psalms: New Poems
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.
- Author
- Scott Cairns
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Paraclete Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781612615158
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2014
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