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.