Conamara Blues: Poems by John O'Donohue

Conamara Blues: Poems

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Conamara Blues: Poems by John O'Donohue

Harper Perennial

Conamara Blues: Poems

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Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara Blues at once reawakens a sense of intimacy with the natural world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of our relationship to this world. Whether exploring the silent, eternal memory of Conamara or focusing on the power of language and the vagaries of human need and passion, O'Donohue tenderly reveals the fragile vulnerability of love and friendship. The result is a musical, transcendent, and deeply moving series of poems that exemplifies O'Donohue at his finest.

Written with penetrating insight and distilled transparence, Conamara Blues offers a singular and lasting imaginative vision of a landscape of hope and possibility -- powerfully exhibiting the mastery of a poet at the height of his lyric powers.

Book Details
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
ISBN:
9780060957254
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
John O'Donohue
Published Date:
2004-02-03
Language:
English
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About John O'Donohue

A native Irish speaker from County Clare, John O'Donohue (1956-2008) entered Maynooth at eighteen to study English literature, philosophy, and theology, and was ordained a priest in 1982. He earned a PhD in Philosophical Theology from the University of Tübingen in 1990, then undertook postdoctoral work on the thirteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart. His two poetry collections are Echoes of Memory (1994), his first published book, and Conamara Blues (2000). The prose work Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1997) became an international bestseller and brought him a wide readership as a speaker and teacher. He left the priesthood in 2000. He died in France in January 2008.

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