I just ordered the above book from Amazon. Wanting to know more about poetry in the Bible, the following review excerpt makes the book quite desirable:
Prose seeks to lock down ideas with logic and clarity so there is no wiggle room. Poetry, by contrast, is all about wiggle room.
Poetry is all about “glimpsing” something — say, the kingdom of God — without constraining it by rules and tenets, without defining it. Poetry is about open-ended ideas and images that are there to be “explored.”
Prose tries to build a room and determine every item inside that room.
Poetry stands out in the open — whether in a desert or a city or in a jungle — and is awash with a great deal of thoughts, emotions, sensations, some of which are to be expected but others, such as a bird suddenly flying past at eye level, are unsettling, maybe in a pleasurable way but maybe a distressing way.
I am quite sure that this book will entail focusing, quiet meditation and prayer. All these are qualities of action that I seek.
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When my husband retrieved the mail from our Hunt, TX "mail van" the other day, the post office dude said something about "no books today." I had no idea he was paying that much attention or perhaps, I do order many books! Then my husband told him of our losses, including all the books I had owned. I guess I am slowly regaining a library of joy and imagination. As Dolly Parton has created her Imagination Library for children, I too am in the process of such a creation.
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
