Product Description A collection of 149 psalms (one less than King David) through which the poet discovers the dislocations in meaning and language that afflict the contemporary individual and drives the problem back to the Shoa, the destruction of the Jews of Europe and its catastrophic effect on the possibility of meaning let alone faith. By piecing together the remnants of language the poet is able to return to the world of discourse and, ultimately, prayer but in a significantly different key. About the Author Ira F. Stone is the Rabbi of Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia and a Visiting Lecturer in Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York. He is the author of three previous books, Seeking The Path To Life, (Jewish Lights) Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud,(JPS) and A Really Perfect Poem Has An Infinitely Small Vocabulary, (Mellon Poetry Press). His essays in Jewish thought have appeared in various journals including Conservative Judaism, Judaism, Kerem. His poetry has appeared in various magazines. He is married to Anna Stone and they are the parents of Tamar, Yehoshua and Shaul.