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I am so sorry to be getting back to you so late on this! I received this book as a belated birthday gift and I haven't had the time to really sit down and go through it thoroughly. But from the pages I've flipped and read it's a really nice translation. I love having the original Gaelic on the left page and the translation into English on the right. The book is beautifully decorated!
The copy of he Carmina that I have is the original by Alexander Carmichael and I've never gotten around to reading it. I do like the pagan version of the Carmina that Mike Nichols has on his website however. Not a direct translation at all, but a translation that has been paganized. I had no idea that Matthews had put out a version. I'm going to have to go and look that up.
posted by LadyKarris at 11:34 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2008
Just dropped by Salvino's topic, where you wrote enough to make me come here and, seeing your interests, want to send you one of my books for a review, the one mentioned there. It has 2000 haiku translated from japanese and concerns the re-creation of the world in the dreamtime called the new year season and i am eager to know how someone without much japanese background combining philosophy and poetry and a fascination for enchantment will read it. When i say "review," i do not mean a commitment to posting one anywhere, just the willingness to read it through and give me your feelings about it.
An off-topic question: Right after Madeline L'Engle was mentioned in an earlier post, you mentioned someone throwing a starfish and I wondered if you had read Eiseley's Star Thrower (it's an essay and the name of an anthology of his which i helped get translated into japanese) but couldn't recall his name or if it was also in ME's work. Also, I have not read the Tilted Planet (forgive me if i got it wrong) but seeing the title thought of Carrington's Ear Trumphet and wondered if you read that?
Keigu
(robin d gill)
posted by keigu at 12:09 am (EST) on Dec 17, 2007
posted by nbr at 1:46 pm (EST) on May 23, 2007
I thought I'd simply leave you a message here rather than drag on the ranting of scaryguy. His manic self-absorption with his own view of matters literary and otherwise is obvious and I think precludes any real further progress or dialogue. True, I used some loaded terms that needed further definition and context, but I saw it was quite impossible to lay these out in sensible cogency with the mind-set that became apparent from the responses to my question. As you well know, I never used the term "elitist," but "heirarchy." I think you understood exactly the implications of the term and what I was implying about the various qualities of literature. Philosophy, as in your own life, has admittedly played a big part in shaping my perspective of writing. Personally, I don't feel there's any point in writing unless one decides in some way to tackle the great human questions and problems inherent to the human condition. Is there light literature? Yes. Did I enjoy Edgar Rice Burroughs as a boy? Yes--but after reading Dostoevsky, is there any comparison? I thought your responses on the issue were well-thought and extremely well-articulated and in many ways better than mine.
Sincerely--
posted by salvino at 9:10 am (EST) on May 21, 2007
Also, if you haven't read Terry Pratchett's "Wee Free Men," I'd highly recommend it.
Tiffany Aching's a 9yr old little girl who goes off to confront the faerie queen armed only with a frying pan, her incredibly sharp intellect, and a rowdy band of little blue men (who got kicked out of Faerie for too much drinkin' and fightin').
posted by f_ing_kangaroo at 7:52 pm (EST) on May 16, 2007