I'm just going to leave this right here for myself—a "syllabus" of sources for an upcoming class I'm teaching.
The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible by Sarah Ruden, especially "Poetry in the Bible: The Living Word of Everything and Nothing."
Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger, especially "What Are Poets For?"
The Humiliation of the Word by Jacques Ellul. Page 46. "Poetry needs to be spoken." + "The same process applies to religious writing."
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics by Lewis Turco.
The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations by James L. Kugel, especially "Psalm 23 • And Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews."
Poets on the Psalms, edited by Lynn Domina, especially "Psalm 23" by Catherine Sasanov and "I Shall Not Want: The Twenty-third Psalm Comes to Cleveland, Ohio" by David Citino.
"Psalm XXIII" from Radio Sky by Norman Dubie.
"David singt vor Saul / David Sings Before Saul" from New Poems [1907] by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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