Sparked by phrases from the book of Psalms, these poems question and occasionally affirm our everyday ideas about life, mortality, the afterlife, God, family, and belief. In vigorous contemporary language–complaining, lamenting, and wisecracking on everything from Job’s wife to baseball, crows to angels, circus elephants to Mary Magdalene–but in traditional form, these sonnets, or little songs, ‘speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.’
A propos de l’auteur
Kent Gramm is the author of fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Nature’s Bible: The Old Testament through the Eyes of Creation; November: Lincoln’s Elegy at Gettysburg; Bitterroot: An American Epic; Cars: A Romantic Manifesto; The Prayer of Jesus: A Reading of the Lord’s Prayer; Somebody’s Darling: Essays on the Civil War; Sharpsburg: A Civil War Narrative; Psalms for Skeptics; Psalms for the Poor; and Public Poems. Visit www.kentgramm.com for descriptions and more information.