John F. Deane Ordre des livres (chronologique)

This collection showcases the work of a significant contemporary Irish religious poet, featuring both selected and new poems. The verses reflect profound themes of faith, spirituality, and the human experience, offering readers a deep and contemplative journey through the poet's unique perspective. The blend of established favorites and fresh pieces invites exploration of the poet's evolving voice and the enduring power of religious contemplation in modern poetry.

Vybrané básne Johna F. Deana EVANJELIUM PODĽA JOHNA v brilantnom preklade Jany Kantorovej-Bálikovej nám predstavujú (po W. B. Yeatsovi, S. Heaneym) ďalšieho výborného írskeho básnika, ktorého tvorba nesporne patrí do moderného európskeho fondu poézie. Deaneove verše presiaknuté žičlivým kresťanstvom a humanizmom hovoria o hľadaní Boha, o bolesti, smrti, írskej krajine a nádeji.

"Set in a small island community off the west coast of Ireland ... [this novel] follows the lives of Patrick Brennan and Dorothy Lohan. Destined for the religious life- the convent for Dorothy; the priesthood for Patrick- and from different social backgrounds, the pair form an unlikely and compelling friendship, even as the paths they have chosen seem to be pulling them apart"--P. [4] of cover.

Details the brutal 1965 torture slaying of Sylvia Likens and the abuse to which the victim had been subjected by Gertrude Baniszewski, the woman with whom she had been staying, as well as some of Gertrude's children and neighbors.

These poems of religiously shaped place and passion follow three offices of the church, leading toward a world blessed by reason. The voice is that of an Everyman fallen from grace who has the boldness to trust in the possibility of belief. Single poems and sequences, metered and free verse, make up this collection, in which the Psalms have taken flesh with the passion that King David knew and the grace that the Catholic mystics attest to.

Sheer survival is difficult enough for the people of a small island off the west of Ireland - what chance do they have of love or even of dignity? In the 1950s their battle is with the savage forces of poverty, disease and religious constraint. Terrible things happen - rape, incest, bestiality - and yet somehow compassion, love and generosity of spirit manage to continue. Brooding over it all is the elemental figure of Big Bucko, symbolic of all that is brutal and disruptive. Four decades later, the island is facing other dangers: the Spanish fishing boats which threaten the livelihood of the trawlermen, the encroachment of tourism and the gradual disintegration of community. But still the people strive to transcend their common legacy of suffering, to reach for love and a new connectedness. Mythic, lyrical and moving, this extraordinary novel sounds the depths of our relationship with nature and with each other, and bears witness to love's endurance in spite of all.