{"product_id":"psalm-to-whome-9781885983343","title":"Psalm to Whom(e)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePsalm to Whom(e)\u003c\/i\u003e, the restless and astonishing Diane\nGlancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writings\nthat considers the relationship between place and faith; the need for movement,\nstability, and inner exploration; and the search for home. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm to Whom(e)\u003c\/i\u003e centers on Kansas and rural Texas, places\nthat usually see the underside of planes. \nGlancy focuses on geography. \nHistory. Origins.  Memory.  Faith. \nOnce in a while, in desperation, she offers a prayer to whom(e)ver is\nthere. Glancy stretches and pulls the language to see behind the words: old\nNative thought patterns, for instance, or echoes of Gertrude Stein. She takes\nus with her into museums, churches, and national parks, shuttling freely\nbetween personal, cultural, and spiritual history, narration and poetic\nexploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm to Whom(e)\u003c\/i\u003e defines the world as a place on which to\nmark, as evidenced in the earliest pictographs. \nEmbedded in the markings on cave walls and rock facings are circles and\nspirals in which the impulses to move, to travel, to migrate, to explore one’s\nown inner wilderness and solitude are homed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe “whom(e)” is in an essay, “Among My Friends Are Letters\nof the Alphabet.”  “As a loner I write a\nlot because I have to have something to do and the letters of the alphabet\nalways are there.” The isolation of Covid may have driven her farther back into\nhistory, she says. Into the beginning of faith on the prairie.  Into her own believing on her grandfather’s\nfarm and her own father’s work in the stockyards. “Sometimes I add letters to\nwords.  As an ‘e’ as in ‘whome’ because\nthen I see home, for which I always am looking.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diane Glancy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960208101494,"sku":"9781885983343","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_210b3b3d-939a-45a1-a667-1cbf986715c8.jpg?v=1767801496","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/psalm-to-whome-9781885983343","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}