Since I have become for intentional about my devotional life, I have read several different translations of the psalms. This is now my favorite. Norman Fischer has filtered his versions through his own spiritual life and heritage and then used his magnificent ability to write poetry to give me a new sense of what the psalms are speaking. The combination of Fischer's Jewish background, his own present practice of Buddhism and his Catholic friends must be what makes these so wonderful. I will go back to this book again and again.