Kitchen Hymns

Name: Kitchen Hymns
Brand: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Author: Pádraig Ó Tuama
ISBN: 9781556597107

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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."

Book Details

Publisher:: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:: 9781556597107
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 104
Authors:: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Published Date:: 2025-01-28
Language:: English

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About Pádraig Ó Tuama

A poet and theologian born in Cork, Ireland, Pádraig Ó Tuama led the Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland's oldest peace and reconciliation organization, from 2014 to 2019. His poetry collections include Sorry for Your Troubles (Canterbury Press, 2013) and Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His prose works include the memoir In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015). He hosts the Poetry Unbound podcast from the On Being Project and divides his time between Belfast and New York.

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