Ordinary Psalms Ryan M. Seidemann BACKGROUND INFORMATION Comprehensive 'Contexts' chapter

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Comprehensive 'Contexts' chapter features fascinating insights into Sardinia

anxiety - and children on fast forward

full of concrete advice and expressive illustrations

and ongoing conservation efforts aimed at preserving it for future generations

which in their different ways address the opposition between the desire for openness and the desire for isolation

Ordinary Psalms Ryan M. Seidemann BACKGROUND INFORMATION Comprehensive 'Contexts' chapterStruggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. 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