Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.
Atar Hadari
Atar Hadari’s “Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of H. N. Bialik” was a finalist for the American Literary Translators’ Association Award. His debut collection, “Rembrandt’s Bible”, was published in 2013 and his translation, “Lives of the Dead: Poems of Hanoch Levin” came out in 2018.
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One honest prayer: Religion in ‘The Godfather’ and Mario Puzo’s other Mafia novels
Mario Puzo’s novels are shot through with religious themes—but almost never with genuinely religious characters.
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Prayer in a Laundromat
do not assay us too harshly
that were ever more tin than gold
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Pieta
eventually the ants fled
but Judas came with his rifling hands