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One of the finest Welsh-language poets writing today.""-World Literature Today. When Menna Elfyn published her bilingual selected poems in 1995, she was hailed as the first Welsh poet in fifteen hundred years to make a serious attempt to have her work known outside Wales. This is a poetry of daringly imaginative leaps, exploring both inner and outer landscapes, taking exuberant liberties with language, and presenting her translators with formidable challenges. Her questing eye, affectionately critical of many domestic presumptions, restlessly interrogates horizons that others have ignored or taken as read, from the mutating social landscapes of home to the concrete cliffs of Manhattan or the culinary byways of Vietnam. But wherever she finds herself-and as a reader she has been in demand all over the world-Elfyn never loses sight of Wales.
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Cusan Dyn Dall. Blind Man's Kiss, Menna Elfyn
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Cusan Dyn Dall. Blind Man's Kiss
- Language
- English, Welsh
- Authors
- Menna Elfyn
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1852245441
- ISBN13
- 9781852245443
- Series
- Rating
- 5 out of 5
- Description
- One of the finest Welsh-language poets writing today.""-World Literature Today. When Menna Elfyn published her bilingual selected poems in 1995, she was hailed as the first Welsh poet in fifteen hundred years to make a serious attempt to have her work known outside Wales. This is a poetry of daringly imaginative leaps, exploring both inner and outer landscapes, taking exuberant liberties with language, and presenting her translators with formidable challenges. Her questing eye, affectionately critical of many domestic presumptions, restlessly interrogates horizons that others have ignored or taken as read, from the mutating social landscapes of home to the concrete cliffs of Manhattan or the culinary byways of Vietnam. But wherever she finds herself-and as a reader she has been in demand all over the world-Elfyn never loses sight of Wales.