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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781612615158
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2014