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    612-822-4611

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Kitchen Hymns

Kitchen Hymns

Ó. Tuama, Pádraig

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 155659710X
ISBN13: 9781556597107
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English


Written by the engaging host of the popular show, Poetry Unbound, the poems of Kitchen Hymns are finely honed melodies of survival--shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction.

Pádraig Ó Tuama's Kitchen Hymns opens with a question: Do You Believe in God? -- but the bee, gone extinct, cannot answer, and the grass calls believe a poor verb. This collection trades belief for language, and philosophy is grounded in form and narrative. Kitchen Hymns is structured like a ghost mass, where even if God is a favorite emptiness, longing still has things to say: Jesus and Persephone meet at Hell's exit and discuss survival; someone believes more in birds than belief; hares carry messages from the overworld to the underworld. A study in lyric address, Kitchen Hymns speaks to a shifting you an unknown you; the strange you; a lover, a hated other; the you of erotic desire; the you of creation and destruction. Large themes are informed by and contained in a poetics of observation, humor, trauma, dialogics, lament, rage and praise. Delivered in finely honed melodies, shaped with force and conviction, Kitchen Hymns reckon[s] with the empty, and becomes busy with a body / not a question.

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