{"product_id":"ordinary-psalms-9780807174746","title":"Ordinary Psalms","description":"\u003cp\u003eStruggling 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia B. Levine \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of four previous poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eSmall Disasters Seen in Sunlight, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. She is also a recipient of the Discovery\/\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e Award and the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from \u003ci\u003eNimrod.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has been widely published in journals such as \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives and works in Davis, Californ\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482206114066,"sku":"9780807174746","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a34a3da3-2ec6-424a-84b2-538480c0f729.jpg?v=1730340784","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ordinary-psalms-9780807174746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}