Book of Isaiah, Part I by Anne Carson - Poem for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Isaiah 1:10-18
Book of Isaiah, Part I
Anne Carson
SNIPPET:
Isaiah awoke angry.
Lapping at Isaiah’s ears black birdsong no it was anger.
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Anne Carson (b. 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. She has won several awards for her writing and has published more than twenty books of writings (via Wikipedia).