Kitchen Hymns and the values that transcend

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Kitchen Hymns and the values that transcendWritten by the engaging host of the popular show, Poetry Unbound, the poems of Kitchen Hymns are finely honed melodies of survival shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction. Pdraig Tuama's Kitchen Hymns 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. Kitchen