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    Daybreak: Poem-Prayers for Prisoners
    Daybreak: Poem-Prayers for Prisoners
    Daybreak: Poem-Prayers for Prisoners
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    Daybreak: Poem-Prayers for Prisoners

    By Gabriel Rosenstock

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    Poet Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland) responds to the black-and-white landscape photography of Ron Rosenstock (USA) with a poetic invention from 7th-century Japan, 5-7-5-7-7-syllable tanka, in these poem-prayers for prisoners worldwide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGabriel Rosenstock
    Release dateMar 11, 2022
    ISBN9780893044244
    Daybreak: Poem-Prayers for Prisoners

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      Daybreak - Gabriel Rosenstock

      Acknowledgements

      A few of the PhotoTanka in this book first appeared in Café Dissensus (New Delhi), December 2020.

      Gabriel Rosenstock looks at Ron Rosenstock's haunting landscapes, and in those elemental sights, he sees poignant and plaintive narratives of writers and others who are denied freedom.

      Salil Tripathi

      Chair: Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International

      d'éalaigh príosúnach

      caol díreach tríd an mballa

      bhí ballaí roimhe

      is domhan ballaí é, ar sé

      balla . . . balla i ndiaidh balla

      a prisoner walked

      walked straight through a prison wall

      walls ahead of him

      it's a world of walls, he said

      one wall after another

      laethanta ag imeacht

      nach fada í an oíche

      gealann lá eile

      cogar íseal ón ngiolcach

      fógraíonn saoirse anama

      long days multiply

      and nights drag on forever

      another day dawns

      listen, those reeds on the lake

      whisper of inner

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