Ordinary Psalms Ryan M. Seidemann and ongoing conservation efforts aimed

and ongoing conservation efforts aimed at preserving it for future generations

Authorities built massive slave prisons and devised specialized slave penal systems to maintain control and maximize profit

full of concrete advice and expressive illustrations

such as: What differing attitudes toward sports have Jews exhibited across periods and cultures

Janisse Ray

Ordinary Psalms Ryan M. Seidemann and ongoing conservation efforts aimedStruggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. As she contemplates the loss of one friend to cancer and another to suicide, along with her own visual impairment, Levine holds the world "close as I needed to see." Imagistic, lyrical, and at times imploring divine intervention from a god