Research Catalog

Title

Readings from the book of exile / [poems by] Padraig Ó Tuama.

Author

Ó Tuama, Padraig

Publication

Norwich : Canterbury Press, 2012.

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Holdings

Details

Description

84 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Striking, memorable and profound, Pádraig Ó Tuama's poems emerge powerfully from a context of struggle and conflict and yet are suffused with hope. Reflecting on the human condition, they celebrate the sacramental nature of ordinary existence. The poems in this, his first published collection, explore the theme of exile -- being surrounded by what is unrecognizeable, yet seeking home and belonging. (page [4] of cover)

Subject

• Religious poetry, Irish
• Exiles > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A reading from the book of exile, chapter one -- Deoraíocht (Exile) -- Narrative theology #1 -- Circle -- And even though you do not know your name -- Affirmative action -- A reading from the book of exile, chapter two -- Narrative theology #2 -- In-between the sun and moon -- Tortuous atonement -- Four poems at Easter -- This strange country -- A reading from the book of exile, chapter three -- L is for Lonely -- The beginning of wisdom -- Flesh of my flesh -- Northeast morning roads of home -- 'Tis the gift -- Of skinny dipping -- A reading from the book of exile, chapter four -- Creed -- The visit from the queen of the lesbians -- A song of ascent -- Dominic and Jenny's sex life -- Howth's soft heather -- Mo sheasamh ort, lá na choise tinne -- A reading from the book fo exile, chapter five -- the unwriteable chapter -- Untitled #1 -- Till death do us part -- Intercession for lesbian and gay Ugandans -- Postcards to a dead friend -- September the twelfth two thousand and one -- Marbh is imithe ar mean lá an t-samhraidh -- Untitled #2 -- A reading from the book of exile, chapter six -- A circle keeps beginning. A circle is unending. -- Fashion the world -- Shhhhh -- What I needed to hear -- Narrative theology #3 -- Hold yourself together and pull yourself apart -- While he was in Malta -- What do you say that I am? -- Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine -- The task is ended.

ISBN

• 9781848252059 (pbk.)
• 1848252056 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 800863772
• SCSB-12053861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library