Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a
language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John
O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds.
Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances --
Conamara Blues at once reawakens a sense of intimacy with the natural
world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of our relationship to this
world. Whether exploring the silent, eternal memory of Conamara or
focusing on the power of language and the vagaries of human need and
passion, O'Donohue tenderly reveals the fragile vulnerability of love
and friendship. The result is a musical, transcendent, and deeply moving
series of poems that exemplifies O'Donohue at his finest.
Written with penetrating insight and distilled transparence, Conamara
Blues offers a singular and lasting imaginative vision of a landscape
of hope and possibility -- powerfully exhibiting the mastery of a poet
at the height of his lyric powers.