Lia A Leimfidh Thar Tonnta/ A Stone That Will Leap Over The Waves

Poetry. Bilingual edition. In Irish and English, with translations by the author. In attempting to understand my world and myself through poetry written in a rather mandarin Irish...I have inevitably come up against my English, with its Irish substratum and American overlay. And I have fallen thankfully (back?) into the snares of the materiality of that other language, begun to consider the morality of style in English in ways I never have before. (from the preface) Gently, gently I take up a stone/ and knock on it, for I know it/ is a door. (from A Stone from the Great Blasket) By the author of A WREN, also available from SPD.