“Now, the heretic who talks of love”
Psalms are prayers and songs – poetic dialogues with God. In his new book, Uwe Kolbe delves into the grand tradition of biblical psalms and pulls out all linguistic stops: From profane to sublime, from lively singing to stuttering, from intense gravity to the play with sounds and forms. It is always about the life in the here and now in all its wealth: about love and the beauty of nature, about the magic of art, but also about emptiness, loneliness and death. Here, no verse is spoken from the safe side. This separates Kolbe’s poems from the old psalmists’ faith in God and makes them so vivid and close for us today.
