{"product_id":"psalm-to-whome-9781885983343","title":"Psalm to Whom(e)","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePsalm to Whom(e)\u003c\/i\u003e, the restless and astonishing Diane\u003cbr\u003eGlancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writings\u003cbr\u003ethat considers the relationship between place and faith; the need for movement, \u003cbr\u003estability, and inner exploration; and the search for home. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm to Whom(e)\u003c\/i\u003e centers on Kansas and rural Texas, places\u003cbr\u003ethat usually see the underside of planes. \u003cbr\u003eGlancy focuses on geography. \u003cbr\u003eHistory. Origins. Memory. Faith. \u003cbr\u003eOnce in a while, in desperation, she offers a prayer to whom(e)ver is\u003cbr\u003ethere. Glancy stretches and pulls the language to see behind the words: old\u003cbr\u003eNative thought patterns, for instance, or echoes of Gertrude Stein. She takes\u003cbr\u003eus with her into museums, churches, and national parks, shuttling freely\u003cbr\u003ebetween personal, cultural, and spiritual history, narration and poetic\u003cbr\u003eexploration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm to Whom(e)\u003c\/i\u003e defines the world as a place on which to\u003cbr\u003emark, as evidenced in the earliest pictographs. \u003cbr\u003eEmbedded in the markings on cave walls and rock facings are circles and\u003cbr\u003espirals in which the impulses to move, to travel, to migrate, to explore one's\u003cbr\u003eown inner wilderness and solitude are homed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \"whom(e)\" is in an essay, \"Among My Friends Are Letters\u003cbr\u003eof the Alphabet.\" \"As a loner I write a\u003cbr\u003elot because I have to have something to do and the letters of the alphabet\u003cbr\u003ealways are there.\" The isolation of Covid may have driven her farther back into\u003cbr\u003ehistory, she says. Into the beginning of faith on the prairie. Into her own believing on her grandfather's\u003cbr\u003efarm and her own father's work in the stockyards. \"Sometimes I add letters to\u003cbr\u003ewords. As an 'e' as in 'whome' because\u003cbr\u003ethen I see home, for which I always am looking.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885983343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128","brand":"Diane Glancy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43103909642421,"sku":"9781885983343","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_65edeb57-6eef-4918-b03b-aac41dda5d24.jpg?v=1693282379","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/psalm-to-whome-9781885983343","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}