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    Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems
    Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems
    Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems
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    Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems

    By Gabriel Rosenstock

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    Gabriel Rosenstock is one of the finest and most prolific poets of our time and has been a notable force in Irish writing since he first put pen to paper. He is one of the INNTI generation of poets who revolutionized the world of poetry in Irish, and he counts among his peers Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Liam Ó Muirthile. The 54 poems in this book provide an overview of Rosenstock's work over the last 25 years, and the English translations by fellow poet Paddy Bushe make the poetry accessible to a whole new audience.

    In the foreword by Robert Welch he describes Rosenstock's poetry as world poetry. He writes; ‘Observation here, as Samuel Johnson said, has an ‘extensive view' and ‘surveys mankind, from China to Peru''. With a list of poem titles that includes

    An Búda / The Buddha, Zenmhachnamh le haill / Zen meditation at a cliff, Mustanbih / Mustanbih, Selbstporträt / Self-portrait and Billie Holiday /Billie Holiday, Rosenstock's world view is very evident. With an emphasis on themes of universal importance, this collection is testament to Rosenstock's status as one of the most insightful poets of our time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCló lar-Chonnacht
    Release dateMay 1, 2005
    ISBN9781909367333
    Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems
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    Gabriel Rosenstock

    Gabriel Rosenstock was born in postcolonial Ireland. He is a bilingual poet, tankaist, haikuist, translator, short story writer, novelist, playwright, essayist and, to borrow a phrase from Hugh MacDiarmid, 'a champion of forlorn causes'. Previous collaborative work with Debiprasad Mukherjee has appeared in The Irish Times, The Culturium and Margutte (See Ekphrastic Collaborations in Mukherjee's website). Rosenstock is a member of Aosdána ( the Irish academy of arts & letters), a Lineage Holder of Celtic Buddhism and a recipient of the Tamgha-i-Khidmat medal for services to literature.

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      Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems - Gabriel Rosenstock

      Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems

      Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems

      Gabriel Rosenstock

      Translations by Paddy Bushe

      An Chéad Chló 2005

      © Gabriel Rosenstock, bundánta

      © Paddy Bushe, leaganacha Béarla

      © 2005 Cló Iar-Chonnachta, an t-eagrán seo

      ISBN 1 902420 95 0

      Pictiúr clúdaigh: Mionsonra ó The Organ at Notre Dame de Valere in Sion le Cynthia Large. Le cead an ealaíontóra.

      Dearadh: Dean Bardouka

      Gach ceart ar cosaint. Ní ceadmhach aon chuid den fhoilseachán seo a atáirgeadh, a chur i gcomhad athfhála, ná a tharchur ar aon bhealach ná slí, bíodh sin leictreonach, meicniúil, bunaithe ar fhótachóipeáil, ar thaifeadadh nó eile, gan cead a fháil roimh ré ón bhfoilsitheoir.

      Clóchur: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, Indreabhán, Conamara

      Teil: 091-593307 Facs: 091-593362 r-phost: cic@iol.ie

      Priontáil: Clódóirí Lurgan, Indreabhán, Conamara

      Teil: 091-593251/593157

      Clár / Contents

      Portráid den ealaíontóir mar yeti

      A portrait of the artist as a yeti

      Radharc

      A view

      Ginmhilleadh

      Abortion

      Is mé an solas

      Am light

      Leider

      Apology

      Vogelhaus

      Aviary

      Billie Holiday

      Billie Holiday

      Brahms

      Brahms

      Loisceadh

      Burning

      Tagpfauenauge

      Butterflies

      Dún do shúile

      Close your eyes

      Konzipierung

      Coincheap

      Haiku

      Haiku

      Hakuin

      Hakuin

      Giorriacha

      Hares

      Harry Thuillier Jnr (1964-1997)

      Harry Thuillier Jnr (1964-1997)

      Ómós

      Homage

      Heimweh

      Homesick

      Agallamh

      Interview

      Osclaím mo dhán

      I open my poem

      Sprache

      Language

      Barróg scoir

      Last embrace

      Liadhain

      Liadhain

      Mar ulchabhán

      Like an owl

      Línte a scríobhadh le linn Chogadh na Murascaille, Eanáir 1991

      Lines written during the Gulf War, January 1991

      An mhaenad

      Maenad

      Mord

      Murder

      Mustanbih

      Mustanbih

      In íoclann m’athar

      My father’s dispensary

      Go deo deo arís

      Never again

      Cothú

      Nourishment

      Mé an mhuir mhór

      Ocean

      Papaji

      Papaji

      An Pápa Siobhán

      Pope Joan

      Sciathán cosanta

      Protective wing

      An rud is annamh

      Rarity

      Ceacht eolaíochta

      Science lesson

      ScnØd: míniú

      ScnØd: an explanation

      Seán Ó Conaill

      Seán Ó Conaill, storyteller

      Selbstporträt

      Self-portrait

      Ní mian léi an fhilíocht níos mó

      She has gone beyond poetry now

      Uaireanta is fear bréige mé

      Sometimes I’m a scarecrow

      Cléithín

      Splint

      Syójó

      Syójó

      Teilifís

      Television

      An Búda

      The Buddha

      Laoi an Indiaigh dhíbeartha

      The lay of the displaced tribesman

      Luscaí dorcha d’anama

      The shadowy crypts of your soul

      Báisteach ó Dhia chugainn

      Thank God it’s raining

      Dom chomhfhilí

      To my fellow poets

      Chuig mo chéile atá ag sclábhaíocht ar an bhFalla Mór

      To my husband who is labouring on the Great Wall

      Amhrán i mbéal na gaoithe

      Wind song

      Zenmhachnamh le haill

      Zen meditaion at a cliff

      Xolotl

      Xolotl

      An Tíogar ó Bheangál

      Is filíocht dhomhanda í filíocht Gabriel Rosenstock. Nó b’fhéidir gur chirte dom a rá gur filíocht de chuid an domhain í. Mar a dúirt Samuel Johnson fadó, leathnaíonn an fhadfhéachaint amach chun staidéar a dhéanamh ar chomharthaí sóirt an chine dhaonna ón tSín go Peiriú: ‘observation … with extensive view surveys mankind … ’ Cuimhním, fós, ar na hairneáin oíche a dhéanadh Rosenstock nuair a bhíomar inár gcomh-mhic léinn i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh. D’fhanadh sé ina chodladh an chuid is mó den lá agus d’éiríodh sé sa tráthnóna i gcomhair phléarácha na hoíche. Roinn sé féin agus Sasanach iontach neamhghnách, Roderic Campbell, árasán eatarthu ar an airde aoibhinn sin atá go hard os cionn chathair Chorcaí ar a dtugtar Montenotte (Ard na hOíche sa Ghaeilge). Bhí radharc ó na fuinneoga cuimsitheacha thar na dugaí thíos, na báid, na monarchana agus deilt ghabhlánach Abha na Laoi (‘the Lee’s divided flood’, mar a dúirt Edmund Spenser). Timpeall a naoi a chlog nó mar sin thagadh Rosenstock chuige féin agus bhímis ag déanamh comhrá agus cúitimh lena chéile ón uair sin go dtí coim na hoíche, ag éisteacht lena chéile agus sinn ag faire anuas ar an solas ó na lampaí buí thíos ag neartú agus an dorchadas ag dul i láidreacht.

      Oíche amháin, is cuimhin liom, d’éirigh Rosenstock an-chorraithe ar fad agus é ag cur síos ar an dtíogar ó Bheangál. Ní raibh aon ní eile ar domhan, a dúirt sé, níos tábhachtaí ná an tíogar ó Bheangál agus a stríoca chomh buí leis an solas ó na lampaí thíos fúinn. Ba é Blake fé ndear na smaointe seo, ach taobh thiar díobh chomh maith bhí an Búdachas, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder agus fuinneamh tarchéimniúil chósta thiar Mheiriceá. Bhí sé sáite i Freud, Nietzsche agus Kant; sna haistriúcháin a rinne Arthur Waley ón tSínis; in Ezra Pound; sna hOsréalaithe agus sna Dádaistigh; agus i bhfilíocht Eoghain Rua Uí Shúilleabháin, Aogáin Uí Rathaille agus Sheathrúin Chéitinn. Léigh sé Leabhar na Marbh na Tibéide; rinne sé staidéar ar an draíocht; agus bhí dealramh áirithe ina ghnúis a thug le fios go raibh sé lándáiríre faoi na feachtais éagsúla seo. Má b’ionann Roderic Campbell agus Gerard de Nerval (agus b’ionann: bhíodh sé go minic ag caint go héadmhar faoin tslí a mbíodh gliomach ar téad ag de Nerval agus é ag spaisteoireacht leis ar shráideanna Pháras), ba é Rosenstock an Arthur Rimbaud aige.

      Oíche amháin ráinig Campbell doras ár dtí (is é sin le rá tigh mo mhuintire féin i gCorcaigh) agus d’oscail mo mháthair bhocht (go dtuga Dia suaimhneas di) an doras dó; féach cad a bhí roimpi ach Campbell groí, culaith dhubh fhoirmeálta thráthnóna air, agus coinneal chéarach ar lasadh ar bharr a hata ard caol dubh.

      B’in cathair Chorcaí sna seascaidí; agus bhíomar go léir inár mic léinn ag sármhúinteoirí san Ollscoil: Seán Ó Tuama, Seán Lucy agus Seán Ó Riada – an Triúr Seán mar a thugtaí orthu. Agus iad ag déanamh léinn le daoine óga mar Eoghan Harris, Tomás Ó Murchadha, Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile, Campbell, Killian O’Donnell agus, ar ndóigh, Rosenstock féin. Is faoin tráth seo a tháinig INNTI ar an saol, ach roimh INNTI bhí iris eile, Motus, Campbell ina eagarthóir air; agus mórbhileoga ó phreas leis an dteideal iontach The Burial Weather Press. Ach ag trácht ar INNTI, b’éacht í an iris úd, a thug filíocht na Gaeilge lom díreach isteach i racán agus borradh na linne sin.

      An tíogar ó Bheangál. Cé go raibh roisc shuaite Rosenstock faoin ainmhí míorúilteach seo beagáinín trína chéile, mar sin féin, mar chúlra ar na rithimí rapsóideacha seo uaidh, bhí a dhearcadh féin aige ar fhuinneamh dochuimsithe na beatha. Dá ndéanfá comhbhá le sampla seo na beatha, an tíogar, rachfá i dteangmháil leis an bhforneart neamhtheoranta gur de an tíogar, ina steillbheatha féin. Is í an chomhbhá seo, an neart samhlaíochta a chomh-mhaireann le gach uile ní, grinneall agus bunús an domhain

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