Testament is an imaginative improvisation on the Bible that engages
with the intensities, the ups and downs, of existence in our
complex and fragmented world. Psalter, the first part, comprises
150 psalm-like poems that sound the depths and heights of life
lived in the presence of God. Here, shaped into powerful,
accessible poetry, is the wisdom of a mature and practical faith
that knows love, grief, doubt, fear, disappointment, and
overwhelming delight and joy. Micheal O'Siadhail stretches heart,
mind, and imagination to open up profound questions of God,
suffering and aging, truth and trust, freedom and surprise, desire
and love. There are passionate exchanges with God and daring leaps
of insight. Through them all runs a gripping conversational
relationship expressed in praise, thanks, lament, and distilled
wisdom, embracing a dazzling variety of forms and rhythms. Gospel,
the second part, retells in poetry stories from the four Gospels of
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The emphasis is on the plain sense
of the stories, newly imagined. We are invited to reread them, to
discover insights and nuances, angles and depths, and above all to
encounter afresh the familiar yet endlessly mysterious central
character-Jesus. The world's bestselling book shows yet again its
capacity to excite and inspire. O'Siadhail's acclaimed The Five
Quintets engaged with the ways in which the arts, economics,
politics, the sciences, philosophy, and theology have shaped our
twenty-first-century world. Here in Testament is an imaginative
faith and wise spirituality that can inspire day-to-day living in
that world, revealed through the inner life and penetrating
discernment of a great poet.
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