MARGUTTE » Gabriel Rosenstock

Crann, a Symphonic Hymn to the Tree

margutte — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:37:58 +0000

CRANN, Creation, Transformation and Innovation. Some Notes on the Making of a Film-Work The source and matrix of Margutte’s Albero Project (2016) is Richard Berengarten’s poem Tree (1981). This is a symphonic hymn to the arboreal in every register. Each of…

Flowers for Varavara Rao

margutte — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:53:02 +0000

GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK Letter to India (On the imprisonment of Telugu-language poet Varavara Rao) India! Does the goddess Saraswati smile When you imprison your poets When, Covid-stricken, they hallucinate Sitting in a puddle of urine? India! Is Saraswati pleased? Varavara Rao,…

Walk with the Mahatma

margutte — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:13:41 +0000

SILVIA PIO (edited by) “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.” —Mohandas…

Gabriel Rosenstock & Debiprasad Mukherjee: Mural World

margutte — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 06:09:45 +0000

DEBIPRASAD MUKHERJEE Life is always like a painting—you draw, you erase … Historically, people used painting as an abstract expression of moments lived. Paintings on walls across the globe continue to be the portraiture of people’s social structures, the mirrors which reflect their…

Creation, translation and transcreation in Rosenstock’s Sasquatch

margutte — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:20:39 +0000

From The Loneliness of the Sasquatch, transcreated by Amanda Bell from the Irish of Gabriel Rosenstock. Alba Publishing, 2018 appearing out of mist as from a dream strange creatures the sasquatch rubs her eyes will they flee on seeing me…

What Else Would the Son of a Cat Do…?

margutte — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:49:39 +0000

GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK What Else Would the Son of a Cat Do…? …only kill a mouse! Of course! I have been a member of Gaels Anonymous for fourteen years now, I’d say. Maybe longer, even? You’d think I’d remember, considering how fateful a…

A Forest of Trees

margutte — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 05:59:46 +0000

Thirty-eight years since its composition, Richard Berengarten’s Tree has been translated wholly or partly into at least eleven languages. And with nine translations, TREE is now inaugurated as a multilingual project in Margutte. Tree is published here in a number of…

The Last Stop Before Salvation…

margutte — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:17:01 +0000

Haiku in English and Gaelic by Gabriel Rosenstock on photography series by Debiprasad Mukherjee, a story on a hospice at Varanasi, India, where people can spend their last fifteen days of life. Taking God’s name and dying in Varanasi –…

The Floating Universe of poet Gabriel Rosenstock

margutte — Wed, 30 May 2018 05:30:57 +0000

The Floating Universe is an online booklet of ekphrastic haiku, i.e. responding to works of art (in public domain), in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, translated into Scots by John McDonald, into Japanese by Mariko Sumikura and into Greek…

100 Great Indian Poems

margutte — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:15:39 +0000

ABHAY K. (From the Editor’s Note) On 10 December 1950, William Faulkner began his Nobel Prize acceptance speech with these words, “I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s…