{"product_id":"kitchen-hymns","title":"Kitchen Hymns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten by the engaging host of the popular show,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare finely honed melodies of survival--shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePádraig Ó Tuama's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKitchen Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spring Arbor Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51176428863783,"sku":"008847","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7419\/1143\/files\/9781556597107.webp?v=1774015618","url":"https:\/\/jaxcathedralbooks.org\/products\/kitchen-hymns","provider":"St. John's Cathedral Bookstore \u0026 Gift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}