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American Psalm, World Psalm
The Lord is my muse, I shall not want.
Green pastures, still waters, paths of righteousness, walks through the valley of the shadow of death—Thou anointest my head with poetry; my pen runneth over.
The biblical Psalms, in all their praise, stand as the greatest poetry ever written, arguably. They are perfect.
So what manner of burning bush lit a fire under Nicholas Samaras’s ass and inspired him to reimagine all 150 Psalms into contemporary language, with a back beat of blues, jazz, folk, hip hop, and world music? A touch of poet as thief of fire, perhaps? Chutzpah? Who cares, he nailed it!
A National Endowment for the Arts and Lilly Endowment Foundation fellowship award winner, Samaras’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and numerous other publications.
Reviewed by
Matt Sutherland
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