{"product_id":"kitchen-hymns","title":"Kitchen Hymns","description":"\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","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46609717461161,"sku":"PHBK-9781556597107","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_2aeb337c-9fa4-4fb7-b825-5a70b2f53c75.jpg?v=1764798869","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/kitchen-hymns","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}