Ordinary psalms / Julia B. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Julia B., author.

Series:

Barataria poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 89 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, "Ordinary Psalms," asks the everyday world to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into the fundamental truth of vision. As she contemplates the loss of one friend to cancer and another to suicide, along with her own visual impairment, Levine holds the world "close as I needed to see." Imagistic, lyrical, and at times imploring divine intervention from a god she does not know or trust, these poems curse and praise the extraordinary world we live in and are in danger of losing. Lamenting that "this world is a mortal affliction with wounds in the beautiful," "Ordinary Psalms" provides a seductive and lyric rumination on beauty, loss, and grief"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Psalm With Wren In Daylight Saving Time

Psalm with Near Blindness

Psalm with No Cure

Lost Wetlands Preserve

Psalm with a Four-Letter Word

Psalm with Violent Interruptions

The Neighbors

The Lives of the Saints

Psalm with Severe Neglect

During the 17 Days a Killer Whale Pushes Her Stillborn through Puget Sound

Almost Blue

Psalm after Another Mass Murder

In the Morning Kitchen

Psalm after Failing Another Child

Preaching to the Debris Field

Night Psalm

II. Anthropocene Psalm

First Lamentation

Psalm with Lung Cancer

April in Community Park

God Speaks to Me from the Almond Orchard

The Anointing

Psalm with a Few Questions for Death

In the October ER

III. Lamentation With The Detroit River

Border Towns in Texas

In the Promised Land

Hillside Stations of the Cross

Antidote

Dispatch from the Forthcoming

Revelation

Grandfather

Hast Thou Not Poured Me Out like Milk and Curdled Me like Cheese?

Psalm with Sylvia Plath on the Radio

IV. Cache Creek Bridge At Flood Stage

Catch and Release

On the Yolo Bypass

Visitation

Psalm with Errant Joy and Devastation

Psalm with Higher Math

Elegy Written on a Sacramento Fire Escape

Psalm on Vacation

The Novitiate

Psalm with Yellow Jackets

On Pine Mountain in the Perseid Shower

Psalm with September Windstorm

Kabbalah on Tomales Bay

Moths

Sea Ranch Psalm

God.

Notes:

"LSU Press paperback original"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 89).

Other Format:

Online version: Levine, Julia B., Ordinary psalms

ISBN:

9780807174746

0807174742

OCLC:

1178868718