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Gabriel Rosenstock

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Gabriel Rosenstock is the author/translator of over 100 books, including 12 volumes of poetry in Irish and a number of volumes of bilingual haiku. A member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters, he has given readings in Europe, the US, India, Australia and Japan. He has translated into Irish the selected poems of, among others, Francisco X. Alarcon, S. Heaney, G. Grass, W M Roggeman, Said, M. Augustin, P. Huchel, G. Trakl, G. Heym, H. Schertenleib and his Irish-language versions of haiku masters Issa, Buson, Shiki, Santoka and others are much loved in his native country.

The selections form Uttering Her Name are addressed to Dar Óma, a Celtic goddess, daughter of OGHMA who gave the gift of writing to the Celts. The communication to Dar Óma at times seems addressed to an impersonal God(dess) and, at others, to someone immediate, felt, touched. Gabriel Rosenstock describes the work as neo-bhakti and, indeed, it has a strong feel of some of the great bhakti poetry, like that of Mirabai.

Gabriel Rosenstock can be contacted at:
grosenstock04@gmail.com

Poems by Gabriel Rosenstock

	Baghdad
	faint sunlight
	full moon
	lotus! revealing pure nakedness
	the cat -- curled into herself --
	to fully explore
	will they see each other tonight?
	(1) what speeded them on their way? (from Uttering Her Name)
	(8) I was a beggar (from Uttering Her Name)
	(10) I carved a wind-harp (from Uttering Her Name)
	(22) the herring gull repeatedly lifts a crab (from Uttering Her Name)
	(25) snake unwinding (from Uttering Her Name)
	(33) I create silences (from Uttering Her Name)
	(42) slowly like Venice I am sinking (from Uttering Her Name)
	(49) why was the veil rent (from Uttering Her Name)
	(51) the grace showered on me (from Uttering Her Name)
	(61) in a Transylvanian mud-bath (from Uttering Her Name)
	(89) on first hearing its name (from Uttering Her Name)
	(93) not the slaked thirst of Bayazid (from Uttering Her Name)
	(1) You are in me (from Year of the Goddess)
	(2) From each and every pore (from Year of the Goddess)
	(3) From clear air (from Year of the Goddess)
	(4) A daisy picked (from Year of the Goddess)
	(5) Old Wall (from Year of the Goddess)
	(6) I do not exist (from Year of the Goddess)
	(7) Were I a little bird (from Year of the Goddess)
	(8) Barefoot (from Year of the Goddess)
	(9) Snow on the foothills (from Year of the Goddess)
	(10) She (from Year of the Goddess)
	(11) Your nakedness (from Year of the Goddess)
	(12) April Gusts (from Year of the Goddess)
	(13) Spring Showers (from Year of the Goddess)
	(14) Your summer (from Year of the Goddess)
	(15) Miracle (from Year of the Goddess)

Recommended Books

	Bliain an Bhand� - Year of the Goddess, by Gabriel Rosenstock Amazon.com
	Cold Moon: The Erotic Haiku of Gabriel Rosenstock, by Gabriel Rosenstock Amazon.com
	Portrait of the Artist as an Abominable Snowman, by Gabriel Rosenstock Amazon.com
	Treasury of Irish Love Poems, Proverbs & Triads in Irish and English, Edited by Gabriel Rosenstock Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Gabriel Rosenstock - Cois Life http://www.coislife.ie/udairhtm/scribh/grosenb.htm A very brief biography.
	Simply Haiku - Gabriel Rosenstock http://www.wb.livin4.com/simplyhaiku/august/rosenstock.html A small sampling of Gabriel Rosenstock's haiku.
	Aosdana - Gabriel Rosenstock http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/literature/gabrielrosenstock.html Brief biography on-line.
	Non-Duality Salon Highlights #1584 - Haiku Enlightenment http://www.nonduality.com/hl1584.htm Excerpts from Gabriel Rosenstock's manuscript Haiku Enlightenment.

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