Conversations with Li He: Comhrá Le LÍ Hè

First Bilingual (Irish-English) Poetry Book from Cross-Cultural Communications. Translated by Garry Bannister. Illustrated by Tania Stokes. More than any other Irish poet of our times Rosenstock has long engaged in a remarkable dialogue with the poetry of the East. Here in one of his finest collections ever he speaks to the spirit of the doomed Li He who died in his twenties. In these finely tuned lyrical conversations we are brought over the hills and far away into a world where we smell plum blossoms and courtesans perfume; we hear cuckoo calls and dancing music from all quarters; and enter an ancient world of war drought and plague that has uncanny resonances of our own age. These beautiful and glittering poems sing to the stars both in Rosenstocks exquisite original Irish and in Gary Bannisters lucent English translations.--Liam CarsonPoetry.