Idiot Psalms: New Poems, Paperback/Scott Cairns

A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens ofother 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 kindwhile  apparently aloofallow  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.