{"product_id":"a-book-of-psalms-paperback-1","title":"A Book of Psalms - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Book of Psalms is about a life retrieved in which the commonplace is made new in poetry and everyday experience is undramatically revealed as approaching the miraculous. Gazing through the windows of the public library offers a prosaic starkness, 'Leaking radiators, polished floors, books on everyday wellness' somehow transformed via a 'Leaf-vein atlas suddenly awake to sun on wings, ' so that in a playground, at the side of the road with cars passing, we are with 'a local deity of the edgelands.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in this newly entered world this poet sees the immiseration of the dispossessed for what it is; tent cities in the underpass and men at traffic lights cleaning windscreens, fit subject for elegy and lament from a poet equal to the task. Baker's declarative lyricism is a lifeline sustained throughout these 64 psalms. This is not just a poet writing poetry with its usual tricks and epiphanies. Baker has taken Sidney's advice and looked in his heart to write. In this way the marketplace in town is a vision of the world with poetry in its very bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'And all the people chilled and shouting their wares\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeemed living words that carry a history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each syllable a song in every vowel'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Kelvin Corcoran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47889791451357,"sku":"9781837380176","price":24.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/AscMrtt9IB9781837380176.webp?v=1778100959","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/a-book-of-psalms-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}