Reading the Bible Backwards
Submitted by lrogers on October 25, 2008 - 11:21am
ECW Press, 2008
This new book by poet/troubadour Robert Priest has all the freshness of a second look, backwards. “Sometimes the Beatles / break Yoko Ono up.” Priest’s gentle ironies turn the book of backwards into forwards, because, although poetry is more about questions, the answers are embedded in precedents. Reading the Bible Backwards is folklore explicating the common narrative of poetry, theology and law.