Benediction of the Singer

There is in her work the echo of the Romantic voice. Like Wordsworth, Isaacson sees the poet not as mere observer but as singer—as one entrusted with revelation. Where Wordsworth turned to lakes and lonely hills to find the divine, Isaacson moves from sea to sanctuary to city street.

Benediction of the Singer: A Commentary

About the Book

In this landmark commentary, Benediction of the Singer, poet and visionary Emily Isaacson maps the spiritual terrain of her acclaimed work Love in the Time of Plague with poetic reflection, theological insight, and personal narrative. Weaving the sacred into the ordinary—from street-level musings to cathedral elegies, from whispered gardens to requiems that echo like hymns of our age—Isaacson invites readers to encounter poetry as prophetic witness.

Drawing comparisons to Wordsworth, Blake, Rossetti, and Dickinson, her voice remains singular—not an evangelical gospel of certainty, but a treatise of song. With the eye of a mystic, the heart of a saint, and the simplicity of a street person, she explores suffering, beauty, and solitude with unflinching grace. This is a commentary that reads like an exposition on restoration and opens the door to the eternal within the temporal.

Introduction by Emily Isaacson

Potter's Press: 403 pages

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from the Introduction . . .

"Yet, I have tried to balance the solitude necessary to write without indulgence, with metaphorical sewing, mending, and darning as if I was a spiritual seamstress in the late 1800’s. The clothing of my salvation did not escape me unnoticed. Stitching was more than a hobby. It was practical at points to turn my attention to the physical things of this walk on earth, which I did by studying nutrition and social work as a career, to help others with the practical problem solving of incorporating therapeutic diets into their lives for the purpose of healing through medicinal foods. In doing so I have steeped myself in the ways of healing and healers, also known in Jewish Medicine as mystics and priests."

Emily Isaacson