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An tamharc deireannach
Colette Ní Ghallchóir
Translated from Irish by Celia de Freine
An tamharc deireannach, by Colette Ní Ghallchóir and translated by Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Joan Newmann, Kate Newmann, Frank Sewell, Celia de Freine, Gabriel Rosenstock from Irish, brings Ireland Irish-language poetry into English through Irish-language lyric carried by many translators and a title that suggests last sight or final looking. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for vision, farewell, multiplicity, and the way translation can become a communal act, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. An tamharc deireannach belongs in the translated poetry library because it presents one poet through a many-voiced English afterlife.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Language
- Irish
- Country
- Ireland
- ISBN
- 9781851321032