A conversation with Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on faith, poetry, peace and reconciliation.
Poetry
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New beginnings for John Berryman and Robert Giroux
When John Berryman and Robert Giroux met at Columbia University in 1932, they would not have expected to forge a decades-long friendship that would result in over a dozen literary classics.
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
Books beyond imagining: an introduction to America’s 2020 Fall literary issue
Twice a year, America publishes special literary issues devoted in their entirety to the world of literature. In Fall Books 2020, a variety of authors and genres are explored, from fiction to poetry to biography and more.
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The Parable of the Young Man and the Old
And Isaac, feeling wise,
rebuked his father for the sacrifice
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Luke
This is total upheaval, the world upside-down./ How sweet and free to be told love is ours.
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Heaven Help
It rains and rains and rains and rains and the children cannot sleep.
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Scott Cairn’s poetry of immanence
Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.