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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Lover's Art: The Song of Songs in Musical English Meters, plus 280 Original Love Poems in Reply--A Dialogue with Scripture

A Lover's Art: The Song of Songs in Musical English Meters, plus 280 Original Love Poems in Reply--A Dialogue with Scripture

Bidney, Martin

Paperback

Series: East-West Bridge Builders, Book 9

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1544624166
ISBN13: 9781544624167
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 29 2017
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the Bible text called The Song of Songs, Which Is Solomon's we have one of the most passionate love poems ever composed, and a shining guide. Because the word song will imply, for most musiclovers, a regular, steady rhythm with word harmonies and usually rhymes, I have versified the Authorized Version in heart-welcomedEnglish meters with patterns of assonance, alliteration, and rhyming.King Solomon addresses loving words to an unnamed woman he calls the Shulamite, and in A Lover's Art I name her Shula. Solomon also authored the biblical Proverbs, a book of wisdom, and in the 16thcentury arose a tradition of regarding the recipient of the love hymn as Lady Wisdom (Hokhmah, or in Greek Sophia). In stage three of this wonderful progress, Kabbalah or Jewish mystical thought has tended to equate the woman embodying wisdom to the Shekhinah, or indwelling female emanative presence of God, the vitalizing energy of the world.Invigorated by the Solomonic example, I have replied to his masterly Canticle with 280 original love lyrics. To Shula, Sophia, Shekhinah--or Woman, Wisdom, World-- dedicate this modern dialogue with mymentor in the lover's art of song.

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