Lamentations
Lamentations sits in the rubble of Jerusalem and does not look away: starvation, humiliation, the temple gone, and God named as the one who did it. Four of its five poems are acrostics, an ordered form holding disordered grief.
Lamentations sits in the rubble of Jerusalem and does not look away: starvation, humiliation, the temple gone, and God named as the one who did it. Four of its five poems are acrostics, an ordered form holding disordered grief.