{"product_id":"ordinary-psalms","title":"Ordinary Psalms","description":"Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Psalms,\u003c\/i\u003e asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she contemplates the loss of one friend to cancer and another to suicide, along with her own visual impairment, Levine holds the world \"close as I needed \/ to see.\" Imagistic, lyrical, and at times imploring divine intervention from a god she does not know or trust, these poems curse and praise the extraordinary place we live in and are in danger of losing. Lamenting that \"this world is a mortal affliction \/ with wounds in the beautiful,\" \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Psalms\u003c\/i\u003e provides a seductive and lyric rumination on radiance, loss, and grief.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57258545414488,"sku":"9780807174746","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ordinary-psalms","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}