Haugaard, Myrna / Lalor, Brian.

Voices From Stones.

Dublin, The Academy Press, 1983. 17.3 cm x 24 cm. 68 pages. Many black and white illustrations by artist and author, Brian Lalor. Original Softcover with protective sleeve. As new condition with only very minor foxing to front and rear endpapers and half-title page. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik C. Haugaard.

Includes for example the following poems: This Island: This island is not mine by birth or kind / You will see no ruin more a ruin / A Circle of Stones: Her arms bent in the curve of the ages / Mary McMahon of Leamaneagh / The Death of Kathleen: My name was O’Brien, Kathleen Mary / ‘Let there be Light’, God said; and the Darkness / Our houses are the keepers of our souls / Biographical notes: Brian Lalor, Myrna Haugaard etc.

Two vastly differing paths which began respectively in New York State, America, and Cork, Ireland, converged in the west Cork village of Ballydehob in 1973 and led to the collaboration which culminated in this book. In response to her encounter with the Irish landscape and the themes of Irish History, Myrna Haugaard, an American woman of Jewish background, wrote a sequence of beautiful and tautly crafted sonnets meditating on themes of imagination, love, womanhood, birth and death.

Brian Lalor has illustrated each sonnet in line drawings which echo and compliment the poet’s concerns and, an impressive array of styles, present their own vision of the immediate and universal themes of the poems. This collaboration of two dedicated artists in different media has wrought an inspired alchemy of place and memory and imagination, of the Irish and Jewish traditions, of passion and courage-and humour. (From jacket notes)

• Keywords: Brian Lalor · Catalogue Irish History Seven – Irish Literature – Poetry – Music – Theatre · Erik Haugaard Collection · Illustrated · Illustrated Books · Irish History · Irish Poetry · Poems · Poet · Poetic works · Poetry · Sonnets
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906187508
• Inventory Number: 200237AB

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