Ordinary Psalms

<p>Struggling to accept her impending blindness the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry <i>Ordinary Psalms </i> asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. <p/>As 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 <i>Ordinary Psalms</i> provides a seductive and lyric rumination on radiance loss and grief.</p>