{"product_id":"another-psalm-9781639806775","title":"Another Psalm","description":"The poems in Bill Schulz's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnother Psalm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e are contemplative and graceful elegies, prayers and songs--invocations for what has been lost, for what has been remembered, for what cannot be replaced. I was transformed by this collection as grief evolves into beauty and then into joy.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Jacobson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot into the Blossoms and Not into the Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the forthcoming\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Bill Schulz's \u003ci\u003eAnother Psalm, \u003c\/i\u003e self-forgiveness is not a solitary achievement. Like a leaf falling to the ground on a gentle breeze, we bear witness to his reminiscing and grief in the same way the little bird in his back yard fills the trees with song, \u003cbr\u003eboth melancholy and aspirational. \"I have freed god \/ from the capital letter,\" he writes, presiding over his past and deciding that regret is inevitable, but a deity is not. In these poems, \"a blue heron in a thin mist,\" an ice pond beside the house he built long ago, a hawk, two crows, the virtual assistant \"Alexa,\" and a sister crying over the phone, intercede, in chorus, for his thriving.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Kimberly Ann Priest\u003c\/b\u003e, Winner of the 2024 Backwater's Press Prize in\u003cbr\u003ePoetry, University of Nebraska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in Bill Schulz's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnother Psalm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e are as unlike \"another\" as possible-they're spiritually adept, original, and altogether necessary in the way of the psalter. One may say the reader of Schulz's poems becomes an intercessor-we feel acutely that we're receiving and soon will bear good news. These poems are clear as Russian tea in a glass, clarifying in their attention to the smallest things, and tinged with the loving kindness of imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Kuusisto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51213306921234,"sku":"9781639806775","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_110d7141-e310-4559-9360-ec4972917c6d.jpg?v=1745365147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/another-psalm-9781639806775","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}