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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b13225322.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-74).".
- catalog extent "xv, 75 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Uproar.".
- catalog identifier "1400040736".
- catalog isFormatOf "Uproar.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Uproar.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 22".
- catalog subject "PS3558.A825 U95 2004".
- catalog subject "Religious poetry, American.".
- catalog title "Uproar : antiphonies to Psalms : poems / by Brooks Haxton.".
- catalog type "text".