Description: 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."
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes: "Kent Gramm's Psalms for Skeptics is a lively, agile response to the traditional book of psalms, a response that opposes the psalmist's belief in a divine order to his own earthbound perspective. Irreverant and subversive, they nevertheless regard the views they question as imposing enough to deserve a passionate reply. However disbelieving they are, they are too witty and wide-ranging to be strident, ready to move from personal experience into politics and cosmology. They truly rise to the occasion."
--Carl Dennis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Buffalo, NY