Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Political Studies. It's late in the game. A pall has settled over the crowd. Then, fresh from the bullpen of dreams, David Volpendesta strides in, a barnstormer in motley pinstripes, sporting a dozen ball caps, a halo, and a propeller. Look! He's pitching with both hands at once! Throwing beach balls and silver coins! Outwitting reason and outrunning rhyme! Now he's autographing copies of FORBIDDEN PSALMS as mesmerized fans cheer wildly!--Michael Koch
David Volpendesta's poems are like biting into a ripe apple. They are perfectly wet and heavy but not so weighty that you couldn't carry one with you in a pocket. The writing is beautiful, and also challenges the reader to engage with the life and death issues. If poetry holds some of the answers, they may be in this book.--Kim Shuck
These psalms are more than just forbidden, they spill over into the poetic, the profane, the political, and the profound. With a diverse range of subjects, often personalities he knew, like Harold Norse and Claribel AlegrÃ-a, or those who influenced his own trajectory, like Pablo Neruda and Roque Dalton, or even a psalm to a great baseball player, Ron Santo, or to a little-known Latin American poet like Alfonsina Storni. The writing is evocative, straightforward and deeply moving. A major work by a long-time poet, David Volpendesta reaches his zenith in these intense, marvelous poems turned to psalms.--Alejandro MurguÃ-a
