Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and
legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our
collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him
the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former
poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s
life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his
divine destiny and his human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical
chronicle of David’s life as well as on the later commentaries and
the Psalms——traditionally considered to be David’s own
words——Pinsky teases apart the many strands of David’s story and
reweaves them into a glorious narrative.
Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinsky’s
erudition and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression,
King David——both the man and the idea of the man——is brought
brilliantly to life.
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