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Kitchen hymns poems

Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama opens with the question, "Do You Believe in God?" but shifts focus from belief to language and narrative. The collection explores philosophical themes through a unique structure, likened to a ghost mass, where longing and absence still speak. Characters like Jesus...

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Main Author: Ó Tuama, Padraig (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2024]
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Irish poetry > 21st century.
Poetry.
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Table of Contents:
  • KITCHEN HYMNS. In the name of the bee
  • Mother Brendan's opening words at Ash Wednesday mass
  • The long-tailed tit
  • Eat this bread
  • Do you believe in God?
  • DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? [My grandad came from Abbeydorney]
  • [My dad went fishing at the Old Head Cliffs]
  • [Every summer, crowds of them]
  • [It'll hurt he said]
  • [Before it became my blood]
  • [It used to be the hare and not the rabbit]
  • [At twenty-three I walked in the dark]
  • [He heard a voice]
  • [I accepted it for far too long]
  • [I turn to you]
  • [It was like arriving home from school]
  • [Though I've lost God]
  • [The last thing I did was sweep the floor]
  • KITCHEN HYMNS. PB2G
  • Confession
  • The long table
  • The last supper
  • Charade
  • IN A GARDEN BY A GATE. [hellpsalm: Why are your mercies new every morning?]
  • The gate to the garden
  • Man's search for meaning
  • Let there be lights in the vault of the sky
  • There is time for time
  • Who do you say I am?
  • On the nature of forgetting
  • [hellpsalm: On good days I say, look what I survived]
  • Being and time
  • [hellpsalm: I gave you my heart, but then you gave it back]
  • Do you believe in God?
  • For such a time as this
  • [hellpsalm: I was no fool]
  • The greatest of these
  • The school of dreams
  • [hellpsalm: not everything that's lost is lost]
  • The book of revelation
  • [hellpsalm: I made you into a god]
  • Desire and its interpretation
  • Teach us how to pray
  • Now I am going to destroy the Earth
  • Whosoever shall deny me, I will also deny
  • I saw the earth, a void; the Heavens too, Abandoned
  • Drink and be drunk with love
  • In a garden by a gate
  • A sword shall pierce your heart
  • There is a time for war
  • [hellpsalm: This is why I do not turn to you]
  • You must be born again & again
  • [hellpsalm: you touched my mother with death]
  • KITCHEN HYMNS. Kitchen hymn
  • [hellpsalm: The other day I saw something]
  • Jesus and Persephone meet after many years
  • Rite of baptism
  • The second coming
  • [untitled/missæ].

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