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A New Book of Psalms - Songs of rage and desire, songs of remembrance and lament, songs begging and bargaining and growing still, above all songs of love--"love abundant, / love unspent, untarnished, rising wave-like / till the sea is drowned." - PENIEL is a modern daybook of Psalms, with all of their broken, hurt-into-vision grandeur. - Thomas Gardner - Author of "John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination"The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, / . . . Engine against th' Almighty, " George Herbert might have said of these poems, for surely he would have been as astonished and moved as I was by their intensity and range and daring. Who knew an inner life could be this rich? Imagine that God came to you once at night--"It was otherwise at first. There was the body that came / by the risen moon and again before morning, " and then imagine him unaccountably turning away and growing distant and deaf. These are the cries that would pour from that wound if we had David Hopes' remarkable gifts: songs of rage and desire, songs of remembrance and lament, songs begging and bargaining and growing still, above all songs of love--"love abundant, / love unspent, untarnished, rising wave-like / till the sea is drowned." Peniel is a modern daybook of Psalms, with all of their broken, hurt-into-vision grandeur. It is also, and at the same time, a work of great calmness and craft--it is, one would say, turning to Herbert again to find words to describe its hold on the reader, "something understood."Thomas Gardner, Professor of English, Virginia TechJohn in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination"David Brendan Hopes consecrates his book as a site of revelatory power, inviting his readers to join him in wrestling with the hardest questions of human existence - the problems of suffering and evil, the mysteries of beauty and grace. Hopes sings of these things with a prophetic honesty and clarity of vision, and so the mercy he finds is hard-learned and all the more profound. Throughout Peniel readers will catch glimpses of the face of God."Evan Gurney - Assistant Professor of English at University of North Carolina Asheville