Research Catalog

Title

Ordinary psalms / Julia B. Levine.

Author

Levine, Julia B.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

x, 89 pages; 23 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Barataria poetry

Uniform Title

Barataria poetry.

Subjects

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 89).

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.

Call Number

JFE 21-5766

ISBN

• 9780807174746
• 0807174742

LCCN

• 2020033156
• 40030469678

OCLC

1178868718

Author

Levine, Julia B., author.

Title

Ordinary psalms / Julia B. Levine.

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Barataria poetry

Barataria poetry.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 89).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Other Form:

Online version: Levine, Julia B., Ordinary psalms Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021] 9780807175170 (DLC) 2020033157

Other Standard Identifier

40030469678

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5766