Description
First Bilingual (Irish-English) Poetry Book from Cross-Cultural Communications. Translated by Garry Bannister. Illustrated by Tania Stokes. "More than any other Irish poet of our times, Rosenstock has long engaged in a remarkable dialogue with the poetry of the East. Here, in one of his finest collections ever, he speaks to the spirit of the doomed Li He, who died in his twenties. In these finely tuned lyrical conversations, we are brought 'over the hills and far away' into a world where we smell plum blossoms and courtesans' perfume; we hear cuckoo calls and 'dancing music from all quarters;' and enter an ancient world of war, drought and plague that has uncanny resonances of our own age. These beautiful and glittering poems 'sing to the stars,' both in Rosenstock's exquisite original Irish and in Gary Bannister's lucent English translations."—Liam Carson
Poetry.
Author Bio
Gabriel Rosenstock was born in postcolonial Ireland and is a poet, tankaist, haikuist, short story Q writer, novelist, playwright, essayist, blogger, translator and children's writer. Secret of Secrets/ Rún na Rún is a recent title in a series of free ekphrastic tanka books published in association with Cross-Cultural Communications. He says of this line by Li He—which translates as "the pitter-patter of rain on Dongting Lake is like the playing of a flute"—dòng tíng yŭ jiăo lái chuī sheng: "There is some evidence to suggest that it was written by myself."
Tania Stokes is a student at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She studies a wide range of artistic disciplines from mixed media illustration to digital animation. Her previously published work includes artwork for Garry Bannister's Proverbs in Irish and A Path Home-Conair Siar.
Author City: USA
Garry Bannister set up the first Department of Modern Irish at Moscow State University in the late 1970s, where he also lectured while completing his PhD. He is the author of Essential Irish, Foclóir an Fhoghlaimeora, Teasáras na Gaeilge among many others. His work includes Proverbs in Irish and the first comprehensive translation of Zen koans in English and Irish, A Path Home-Conair Siar, both published by New Island.
Author City: USA