Bilingual tanka, in Irish and English, in response to artwork by various hands. Mystic poems of love, longing and emptiness in 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.
Gabriel Rosenstock is a bilingual poet, tankaist, novelist, haikuist, short story writer, playwright, essayist and translator.Published in 2021 in association with: Cross-Cultural Communications239 Wynsum Avenue Merrick, NY 11566-4725/USA
Copyright: Irish-language and English-language tanka, Gabriel Rosenstock, 2021
SECRET OF SECRETS
rún na rún
G A B R I E L R O S E N S T O C K
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SECRET OF SECRETS
rún na rún
Copyright: Irish-language and English-language tanka,
Gabriel Rosenstock, 2021
Bilingual tanka, in Irish and English, in response to artwork by
various hands. Mystic poems of love, longing and emptiness
in 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.
A few of these tanka first appeared in Modern Literature (Chennai).
Gabriel Rosenstock is a bilingual poet, tankaist,
novelist, haikuist, short story writer, playwright,
essayist and translator.
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Published in 2021 in association with:
Cross-Cultural Communications
239 Wynsum Avenue Merrick, NY 11566-4725/USA
Tel: 516/868-5635 Fax: 516/379-1901
Email: cccpoetry@aol.com
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
(Artwork: Public Domain; Open Access
Artworks, The Met; Euorpeana; Wikimedia
Commons, Rawpixel; Fair Use, i.e. images
widely available on the internet and not used
in this free book for commercial purposes).
Gabhann an t-údar buíochas leis an
gComhairle Ealaíon a thug Sparánacht dó chun
luí isteach ar an tanka Gaeilge.
The author gratefully acknowledges receipt
of an Arts Council Bursary which has enabled
him to continue with his experiments in Irish-
language tanka.
ARTISTS
Cover: N. Roerich
C. D. Friedrich
G. F. Watts
David Burluik
Lasar Segall
Thomas Eakins
Isoda Koryusai
Nicolae Tonitza
Henri Martin
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Fernand Khnopff
Walter Gramatté
Å. Waldemar Larsson
J. W. Waterhouse
Hiroshige
Vincent van Gogh
Ogawa Kazumasa
Ohara Koson
Taguchi Tomoki
Itō Jakuchū
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Morimoto Toko
Watanabe Seitei
Odilon Redon
Negoro Raizan
Hegedüs László
Harald Slott-Møller
Vilhelms Purvītis
Paul Gauguin
Jēkabs Kazaks
Janis Rozentāls
Bohumil Kubišta
J.M. W.Turner
Gentile da Fabriano
Janos Tornyai
Ligia Macovei
Abraham Manievich
Ştefan Popescu
Abram Games
Shitao
Bob Law
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Nicholas Roerich
Ipolit Strambu
Mario Sironi
Ion Theodorescu-Sion
Leon Bakst
Albert Bloch
Lyonel Feininger
Kahlil Gibran
F. du Puigaudeau
René Magritte
Abanindranath Tagore
Caspar David Fr iedrich
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