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2021-04-24

Tanka


The third preview on YouTube of Boatman! take these songs from me,
 a bilingual tanka sequence, comes with an appreciation from poet-critic Waqas Khwaja.
Text: Gabriel Rosenstock. Artwork and Film: Masood Hussain

It only gets better and better! A poet at the height of his powers, and an artist in complete command of his medium, his imagination on fire—what happens when they come together in electrifying collaboration? Of stray pieces and objects is great art made, and poetry, but the unreflecting ordinary eye would not know it until the metamorphic creative imagination reorders the vision, rearranges words, images, and objects for us. Masood Hussain’s movingly wrought reliefs, in heart-rending earth colors of impassioned blues, metallic greens, ochres, rust, and stanched crimson, and Gabriel Rosenstock’s chiseled latticework of sublime tanka, melodic and polyphonic at the same time in conversation with each other, are steeped in sorrow, yet improbably uplifting in an aesthetic experience crafted and shaped out of life’s wilderness of travails and tragedies gratuitously inflicted on a people caught in an ancient struggle for self-liberation and self-realization. The Irish and the Kashmiri, inextricably bonded and blended in their toils, their pains, their struggles and longings, in their creative gusto, transport the reader to the domain of the mystical sublime. Boatman! take these songs from me captures the imagination as only great art can, to leave an enthralling, lasting impact.


Waqas Khwaja

2016-03-21

Port na bPucaí

ón Irish Poetry Reading Archive.

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ag teacht
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn chugainn

cuilithíní
cuilithíní
cuilithíní

ag teacht
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn chugainn

glór
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ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn chugainn

glór na míolta móra
ar tonnta iad

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ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn chugainn

glór na míolta móra
ar púcaí iad

ag teacht
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn
ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn chugainn

glór na bpúcaí
ar míolta móra iad

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ag teacht de dhroim na dtonn chugainn

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[Foam, foam, foam, coming, coming on the waves, coming to us on the waves,
ripples, ripples, ripples, coming, coming on the waves, coming to us on the waves, voice, voice, voice, coming, coming on the waves, coming to us on the waves,
voice of whales that are waves, coming, coming on the waves, coming to us on the waves, voice of whales that are spirits, coming, coming on the waves, coming to us on the waves, voice of spirits that are whales, coming, coming on the waves, coming to us on the waves, foam, foam, foam].

2014-12-01

Nuair a bhí na Naitsithe sa Tibéid

Tá an stiúrthóir ar an gCartlann Scannán Thibéadach, Tenzen Phuntsog, tar éis teacht ar mhíreanna scannáin ón tréimhse 1939 -1959, ina measc íomhánna de Naitsithe agus staidéar á dhéanamh acu ar Thibéadaigh. Is in earrach na bliana 1938 a thug na Naitsithe aghaidh ar an Tibéid, via Calcúta, nó Kolkata mar a thugtar inniu air. Bhí ceannlíne sa Statesman, páipéar Indiach, ag an am: 'Ionradh Naitsithe - Bligeaird san India.'

D'fhás go leor leor teoiricí comhcheilge as an gceangal sin idir an Tibéid agus an Ghearmáin. Nuair a ransaigh na Sóivéadaigh fothraigh Bheirlín, thánadar ar scata lámaí Tibéadacha agus iad chomh marbh le hart. An rabhadar fostaithe ag na Naitsithe? An raibh asarlaíocht ar siúl ag Hitler agus a chairde? Seafóid a deir Isrun Engelhardt san aiste seo:
Pé ar domhan scéal é, is luachmhar iad gach iarsma a thagtar ar shaol agus ar chultúr na Tibéide ón tréimhse sin sular theith an Dalaí Láma chun na hIndia.Tá stiúrthóir na Cartlainne buartha nach mbeidh aon chuimhne cheart ag Tibéadaigh ar a gcultúr féin anois go bhfuil an tSínis agus cultúr na Síne i réim ina thír dhúchais.

2013-06-27