The Lantern
An Lóchrann
Gabriel Rosenstock
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The Lantern
An Lóchrann
Gabriel Rosenstock
mystic poems of love, longing and emptiness
responding to artwork by various artists
Bilingual ekphrastic tanka (5-7-5-7-7 syllables)
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Invocation/ Gairm
Más é seo an uair dom go deimhin chun mo lóchrannsa a ardú,
ní hí mo lasairse a dhófaidh ann.
If this indeed be the hour in which I lift up my lantern,
it is not my flame that shall burn therein.
Kahlil Gibran
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Gabriel Rosenstock is a bilingual poet, tankaist,
novelist, haikuist, short story writer, playwright,
essayist and translator.
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Published in association with:
Cross-Cultural Communications
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Tel: 516/868-5635 Fax: 516/379-1901
Email: cccpoetry@aol.com
Is mian leis an údar buíochas a ghabháil leis an
gComhairle Ealaíon as Sparánacht
a chur ar fáil dó a chuirfidh ar a chumas tanka Gaeilge a
chleachtadh agus a shaothrú.
The author gratefully acknowledges receipt of an Arts
Council bursary to enable him to pursue
ongoing experiments in Irish-language tanka.
Cover: Sunrise by Georgia O’Keeffe (1916)
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Artwork in The Lantern / An Lóchrann is mainly in Public Domain or in the Fair Use
category, i.e. an image widely available on the Internet (Wikmedia Commons etc) and
used in this free book for non-commercial purposes. For the most part, the bilingual tanka
in this series were written as spontaneous responses to works of art. Some of these tanka
were first published in Culture Matters (UK), and Briefly Write; some English-language
versions appeared in Modern Literature (Chennai, India).
© Gabriel Rosenstock, 2021 (Texts in Irish and English)
© Dr Mícheál Ó hAodha (Afterword)
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Artists
Georgia O’Keefe
Harriet Backer