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Naming of the bones / John F. Deane.
Van Pelt Library PR6054.E219 N36 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deane, John F., 1943- author.
- Series:
- Carcanet Poetry
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deane, John F., 1943- Poems--Selections.
- Deane, John F.
- Irish poetry.
- English poetry--Irish authors.
- English poetry.
- Christian poetry, English.
- Religion in literature.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2021.
- Summary:
- The poems in Naming of the Bones touch on Christian values and work towards a significant faith, at the same time focusing on the wonders of an evolving cosmos. The poems delight in the things of the earth, suggesting a secular Christianity. They hope justice will overcome human greed and violence, while they assent to the seasons developing of our landscapes and the beauty and dangers of our place in creation. The sequence 'Like the Dewfall' works with the music of the French composer Olivier Messiaen and his double piano masterpiece, 'Visions de l'Amen', a suite of seven pieces for two pianos, composed in 1943 during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. Messiaen describes the music as seven reflections of the lives of those who accept their existence with gratitude, an acceptance the poem accept, passionate, lyrical and deeply engaged. Other poems connect the 'landscape, sea-scape and sky-scape' of the Achill of Deane's formative years to the 'wonders of the Christian faith' with a sacramental awareness that is a striking feature of many of the poems. -- Back cover.
- Contents:
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- By-The-Wind Sailor
- Safe Passage
- Old Bones
- Kestrel
- A Singular Voice
- The Humming Top
- Found in the Margins: 6th Century
- The Shoals
- Dead Man's Boodaces
- On A Grassy Slope
- Dogwood
- The Flowering
- Lindisfarne
- I Am
- Aidan: a Life
- Cuthbert: A Life
- Colman on Lindisfarne
- Slowdancing: Inishbofin
- The Rattle of Old Bones
- Death Lullaby
- Food for the Journey
- Crossing the Sand
- Near Restful Waters
- Bilberry Bells and Asphodel
- Wood
- Grandfather Ted / John Connors
- The Wall
- Accompanied
- On Keel Beach
- Then and Now
- Walking the Roads
- Postlude
- Exile
- Redcurrants
- To Stand in Choir
- Boneyard
- The Olive Grove
- Icarus
- Triple H
- Ageing Mariner
- The Mediterranean
- Refugee
- Nowhere in the World
- Quartet for the End of Time
- Naming of the Bones
- Already a Child is Crying
- That Casts No Shadow
- In the Hill Country
- The Baseless Fabric
- Abiding in the Fields
- Hot Blood
- Let the Child Play
- Outlaw
- From the Scandalous Chronicles
- The Bread from Heaven
- The Unquiet Cities
- No Offence Intended
- In the Small Hours
- Like the Dewfall
- I. A Boy-Child
- II. The Monastery
- III. The Furies
- IV. Carillon and Bells
- V. The Home Place
- VI. Point of Pure Truth
- VII. Like the Dewfall.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1800171889
- 9781800171886
- OCLC:
- 1255175893
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