In this book of homemade psalms, Brooks Haxton brings the poetry of the original psalmists, their awe and their music, into our world of jet planes and space travel, automatic rifles and suburban pleasures. As he writes in his preface, “I take psalms less as doctrine than as outcries, and I cry back in these poems from whatever vantage I can find.” The result is lucid, touching verse that connects the exalted language of scripture with everyday experience. In a poem called “Dark,” for example, Haxton riffs on the gorgeous line “The night also is thine” (Psalm 74) as he stands on his front stoop on a particularly black night. “Thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures” (Psalm 36) brings forth a poem about the perilous joy of bodysurfing. And his response to Psalm 58, “The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance,” becomes a poem about Westmoreland in Vietnam.
These vibrant scraps of ancient text reverberate with intimations of the immediate present, and Haxton’s poetry, in response, is fresh, funny, and tender. In the pain of doubt, and even in the burlesque of irreverence, he explores the mystery of our abiding passion for the sacred.
具体描述
读后感
评分
评分
评分
评分
用户评价
封面很好看 书的质量很好 打五星，但是不认识的词太多 就算词都认识也看不懂 扣一星
评分封面很好看 书的质量很好 打五星，但是不认识的词太多 就算词都认识也看不懂 扣一星
评分封面很好看 书的质量很好 打五星，但是不认识的词太多 就算词都认识也看不懂 扣一星
评分封面很好看 书的质量很好 打五星，但是不认识的词太多 就算词都认识也看不懂 扣一星
评分封面很好看 书的质量很好 打五星，但是不认识的词太多 就算词都认识也看不懂 扣一星
相关图书
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息，本站不存储任何数据与内容，任何内容与数据均与本站无关，如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有