After a weeklong retreat at Gethsemani Abbey, Zen priest and poet Norman Fischer found himself profoundly inspired by the Psalms. Drawing on Eastern and Western spirituality, and his own Jewish roots, Fischer set out to make these towering and perplexing poems accessible to contemporary readers of every spiritual path or religious background. In the tradition of Stephen Mitchell's Tao Te Ching and Coleman Barks's Essential Rumi, these 93 poems of praise, celebration, suffering, and lamentation are exquisitely rendered.