(Resource Publications) These contemporary psalms grow out of the author’s decades-long fascination with the biblical psalms, particularly with the Davidic psalms and their portrayal of the tempestuous intimacy of the Divine-human relationship. Ladin’s poems attempt to create a corollary to that biblical psalm space. In them, God and the speaker face and struggle toward one another through both pain and love. Joy Ladin is David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College of Yeshiva University. Her previous books of poetry include Transmigration, The Book of Anna, and Alternatives to History .
