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  • Song of the Songs of Solomon
    Laurance Wieder
    A dramatic cantata, this new version of the Hebrew bible’s Song of Songs speaks three distinct voices-none of them royal. Israel’s king appears in allusion, as the proverbial man of wealth and power. Here, Solomon’s royal splendor pales before the singers, who are rich in youth, free in action, and powerful in love. ...
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    7,73 €

  • Words to God's Music
    Laurance Wieder
    Words to God's Music is the first complete poet's version of the Psalter since Christopher Smart's 18th-century Psalms of David. Each of these 150 poems is a unique response to the corresponding biblical psalm, and speaks to and from the heart. Some of these poems live fairly close to their biblical originals; some stand as commentaries or variations on the text; so...
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    16,24 €

  • A Look Ahead
    Laurance Wieder
    This roughly chronological collection assembles the best of Laurance Wieder’s poetry written over the past half-century. The poems speak in a chorus of voices, from Franz Schubert’s to Goofy’s, and feature the meditations of John Wayne and an Italian anarchist carpenter’s take on democracy and organized religion. In his lyric dialogue with the world, Wieder's poems emerge f...
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    16,47 €

  • Poetry History Music Art
    Laurance Wieder
    In 23 essays published over the last quarter-century, Laurance Wieder considers Homer, Lao-tzu, Valmiki, and Lady Murasaki, medieval Hebrew poems for Yom Kippur and 20th-century American poetry, Orhan Pamuk and Evliya Çelebi, Miguel de Cervantes and Roberto Bolaño, William Blake and John Milton, Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Wagner. This caravan of exiles and messiahs, poets an...
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    16,14 €

  • Isaiah’s Closing Arguments
    Laurance Wieder
    Isaiahs sacred poetry transcends place, time, and doctrine. Isaiah's Closing Arguments is a new translation of all the prophet’s Haftorot (singular: Haftarah) chanted on Sabbath mornings and on special occasions. Part one contains Isaiah’s verses which accompany the first three chapters of Genesis, two chapters of Exodus, the first chapter of Leviticus, and the opening of D...
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    11,34 €

  • After Adam
    Laurance Wieder
    'In After Adam, Laurance Wieder invents a new genre for talking about the Bible, distilling its wonders and weaving them together,' (Dr. Ira Bashkow, University of Virginia)Alan Wearne calls this book 'a work that instructs, intrigues, and entertains,' while David Rosenberg maintains that 'After Adam should be in every synagogue pew beside the Chumash, in every church pew, in e...
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    19,94 €