{"product_id":"kitchen-hymns-paperback","title":"Kitchen Hymns - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eP?draig ?. Tuama\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten by the engaging host of the popular show, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems of \u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e are finely honed melodies of survival--shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePádraig Ó Tuama's \u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eP?draig ? Tuama (b. 1975) is from Ireland. The host of On Being's Poetry Unbound podcast, and editor of the anthologies of the same name, he splits his time between Belfast and New York City. His writing includes both poetry and prose, and his work been featured on national radio stations in Ireland, Britain, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Profiled by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, his poetry has appeared in many magazines, including \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Harvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e is his fourth collection of poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.74 x 6.85 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733825261631,"sku":"9781556597107","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/63f4c8948b1f5f2e61d8f4c3df7d1265.webp?v=1765137558","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/kitchen-hymns-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}