Reviews for Lord, Is This a Psalm

The average rating for Lord, Is This a Psalm based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-18 00:00:00 Justin Morales I found Jack Agueros taped to a filing cabinet in a middle school classroom, scribbled on cheerfully as all things that are in the vicinity of adolescents are scribbled on eventually. The poem was "Psalm: The Heaven I Want": "...and Lord, if you can do it, Heaven should have subways that run almost on time." It is an awesome poem. The volume is a great look at both New York City--where Agueros lived--and at the prayers of a man who sees God as...I dunno...a landlord Agueros is both grateful to and often pretty exasperated with. There is something really liberating about reading the thoughts of people who are angry with God and telling him about it. Excerpt! My favorite? "Psalm for the Onion." "Lord, thank you for the onion. It isn't made of anything except itself, over and over." (that's not the entire poem, but it's a taste. It's lovely.) And here's my other favorite.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-08-24 00:00:00 Rick Mayer I admire Jack Agueros's straight-shooting, playful voice in these poems, but I can't deny that I prefer his Sonnets from the Puerto Rican, which combines his down-to-earth sensibility with a little more attention to language and music. But I like that poems like these are being published in a world of slight, frilly New Yorker-style verse. Also: library shoutout spotted in "Psalm for Unanswered Questions": Lord, when I die will the library in heaven have answers to these questions? Will there be a library? Lord, there's gotta be a library!