A Book of Psalms
This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clarke's response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmer's divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.
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A Book of Psalms
This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clarke's response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmer's divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.
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A Book of Psalms

A Book of Psalms

by Edward Clarke
A Book of Psalms

A Book of Psalms

by Edward Clarke

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Overview

This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clarke's response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmer's divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640603592
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Publication date: 04/01/2020
Series: Paraclete Poetry
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 156
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Edward Clarke's Eighteen Psalms was published by Periplum Poetry in 2018. He is also the author of two books of criticism, The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry and The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, and poetry editor of the online magazine Cassandra Voices.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Book 1

1 A Tree 9

2 The Soil 10

3 Rejection 12

4 Resolution 12

5 May Blossom 13

6 A Penitential Psalm 14

7 The Root of Lion (Version IV) 15

8 Noli me tangere 16

9-10 Never Tell Me 16

11 Manuscript Materials 18

12 Il Mare 19

13 'Lo vers mi porta, Corona' 20

14 'Lo (and 53) The Idiot's Guide 20

15 The Pilgrim 21

16 The Silver 22

17 The Spindle 23

18 Flight 23

19 The Skylight 25

20 A Prayer for Iacopo 26

21 Beechenhurst 27

22 To Catch a Thief 28

23 A Stream Still Flows 31

24 Quotations of Places 37

25 The Cat 39

26 One More Informal Anecdote 39

27 The Temple, or The Rock 40

28 Rock-Paper-Scissors 41

29 The Song of Solomon 42

30 2 Kings 22 42

31 The Summer Fly 43

32 A Penitential Psalm 44

33 The Firmament 45

34 1 Samuel 21-22 46

35 Who Is My Enemy? 47

36 Lark in the Morning 48

37 Salt of the Earth 49

38 A Penitential Psalm 49

39 The Sojourner 50

40 The Second Self 52

41 John 13:18 52

Book 2

Sons of Korah I-VIII

42 A Song inside the Night 53

43 Dear Inmost Soul 54

44 Dear Friend 55

45 The Song of Unborn Singers 57

46 The Stranger's Refuge 57

47 A Murmuring Song 58

48 Illuminated Manuscript 59

49 Vain Trust 59

Asaph I

50 Inside Our Common Eye 60

51 A Penitential Psalm 61

52 1 Samuel 21-22 62

53 The Chrysalis 63

54 1 Samuel 23 64

55 A Jeremiad 65

56 The Dove 66

57 1 Samuel 24 66

58 Our Desert Ignorance 67

59 Where I Shall Wander 68

60 Agony in the Garden 69

61,62, and 63 Crenellations 70

64 The Blind Process of Grace 72

65 Above Allusion 74

66 The Heart Is Made of Earth 75

67 Let the People Praise You, O God 75

68 No Return to the Land of Youth 76

69 Hygieia 77

70 Wolves A-Howling 79

71 David of the White Rock 80

72 The Climbing of Snowdon 81

(The Space between) 72 and 73 83

Book 3

Asaph II-XII

73 Into My Dark Imagining 84

74 All Naves 84

75 Say, It Is Not So 85

76 Vow, and Pay 86

77 The Cave 86

78 The Lost Ballad 87

79 Ruination 88

80 The True Vine 89

81 'And you shall love' 90

82 The Feast of the Gods 91

83 'I cannot bring myself 92

Sons of Korah IX-X

84 The Swallow 93

85 Early Flowers 94

86 In Fear and Trembling 95

Sons of Korah XI-XII:

87 The City 96

88 Affliction 96

89 Tondo 97

Book 4

90 Someone Else's Epigraph 99

91 Is God among Us Here, or Not? 100

92 The Gourd 101

93 The Reservoir 101

94 A Dialogue of Self and Psalm 102

95 Pastoral with a Horse-Chestnut Tree 103

96 Bas-Relief 104

97 Nymphaeum 104

98 On the Flood Plain 105

99 On a Solomonic Scale 106

100 Magnificat 107

101 Inside the Tympanum 107

102 The Sparrow 108

103 Archaism 109

104 The Song of the Rising Sun 110

105 Panel 111

106 Companion 112

Book 5

107 Before the Sons of Men 113

108 Loot 115

109 Two-for-One 116

110 Hapax Legomenon 118

111 The Stone-Fly 119

112 Later Commentary 119

113 Magnificat 120

114 The Order of the Psalms 120

115 Montagne Sainte-Victoire 121

116 The Oracles of God 122

117 Extravagant Doxology 123

118 The Stone Set at Naught 123

119 Alepk, Beth, Gimel, Daleth 125

Songs of Ascents

120 Transfiguration 131

121 Eyes Unseen 131

122 Old Red Sandstone 132

123 'As lively pupils' 132

124 The Brave Little Tailor 133

125 Their Old Rifugio 134

126 'I read a Psalm and I am like' 134

127 At the Limits of the Eye 135

128 Inclusio 136

129 The Light of the World 136

130 A Penitential Psalm 137

131 A Simile 138

132 Ephrata 139

133 'Deep calleth unto Deep' 139

134 Finisterre 140

135 Chryselephantine 141

136 ;I' ho già fatto un gozzo in questo stento' 141

137 Pseudepigrapha 142

138 The Song of the Frog 144

139 In San Luigi dei Francesi 145

140 One Click 146

141 Delicacies of this Fat Age 146

142 De Antro Nympharum 147

143 A Penitential Psalm 148

144 The Prophet Daniel 149

145 Hermes 150

146 The Rainbow Hallelujah 151

147 Celestial Spheres of Mistletoe Hallelujah 152

148 A Photophobic Man Hallelujah 153

149 Stained Glass Hallelujah 154

150 The Firmament Hallelujah 155

Acknowledgements 157

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