The Watchman of Ephraim - Poem for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25
The Watchman of Ephraim
Paul Hoover
SNIPPET:
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For my cosmos is contracted.
My first world slips from my hands.
Tell the people, my prophet Hosea,
that I loved her more than love,
and she gave not love in return.
…
Paul Hoover (born 1946) is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. After many years as poet in residence at Columbia College Chicago, he accepted the position of Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and lives in Mill Valley, California.
Hoover is widely known as editor, with Maxine Chernoff, of the literary magazine New American Writing, and also edited the anthology Postmodern American Poetry. He served as curator of a poetry series at the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco, and was a founding board member and former president of the independent poetry reading series, "The Poetry Center at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.” His poetry has appeared in the literary magazines American Poetry Review, Triquarterly, Conjunctions, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Sulfur, The New Republic, Hambone, and The Iowa Review, among others. (via Wikipedia).