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About the Author
JOHN O’DONOHUE lives in Ireland. He is a Catholic scholar who lectures and conducts workshops in the United States and Europe. He was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophical theology from the University of Tübingen in 1990, and his book on the philosophy of Hegel, Person als Vermittlung, was published in Germany in 1993. His collection of poetry Echoes of Memory was published in 1994. John O’Donohue is the author of the award winning Anam Cara, which has been a number one bestseller in Ireland for more than a year.
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John O’Donohue
Conamara Blues
Poems
IN MEMORY OF MY AUNT,
Mary O’Donohue
(1896–1923)
of Caherbeanna, who died
in a tragic road accident shortly
after her emigration to America
Contents
Approachings
Thought-Work
First Words
Nest
Black Music in Conamara
The Wound at the Side of the House
Before the Beginning
The Banshee’s Grotto
Wind Artist
Elemental
The Pleading
The Secret of Thereness
Breakage
Inner Circle
Fluent
The Stillness Above is Listening
Mountain Christening
The Night Underneath
Decorum
Imagined Origins
Encounters:
The Rosary Sonnets
An Paidrín
The Rosary
The Joyful Mysteries
The Annunciation
The Visitation
The Nativity
The Presentation in the Temple
The Finding in the Temple
The Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden
The Scourging at the Pillar
The Crowning with Thorns
The Carrying of the Cross
The Crucifixion
The Glorious Mysteries
The Resurrection
The Ascension
The Descent of the Holy Spirit
The Assumption
The Coronation
Distances
Words
Wings
The Transparent Border
The Angel of the Bog
Placenta
Mountain-Looking
Seduced?
At the Edge
Up the Mountain
Prisons of Voice
The Ocean Wind
Outside a Cottage
Breakage
Double Exposure
Elemental
The Night
Anchor
A Burren Prayer
Notes
Index of First Lines
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by John O’Donohue
Copyright
About the Publisher
APPROACHINGS