| Verbum Et Verbum Contributor(s): Fanning, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897648898 ISBN-13: 9781897648896 Publisher: Salmon Publishing OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2000 Annotation: Brought up in County Kerry, Micheal Fanning is a medical doctor for whom the worlds of art and medicine are closely linked. His work in medicine has taken him from Northern Ireland, England, and Wales, to Eastern Europe and Africa. In the best of these poems Fanning relives a South Kerry childhood dominated by the sea. His images are simple and memorable. But the peaceful and serene landscapes of a rural and gentle Ireland quickly move to the apocalyptic scenes of massacre in Rhwanda, famine in Ethiopia, orphanages in Romania, and a body riven with cancer. He depicts the early monk scribes who painted otters and griffins to illuminate their manuscripts, much as he seeks images to make sense of a world torn by violence, hurt, and unspoken feelings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 98106010 |
| Series: Salmon Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 4.75" W x 7.78" (0.20 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the best of these poems Micheal Fanning relives a South Kerry childhood dominated by the sea: 'the great comforter'. Images are simple and memorable: "the horse gallops/into the lungs of the wind." He moves from the subtle colours of this bird-filled landscape to apocalyptic scenes of massacre in Rwanda, famine in Ethiopia, Romanian orphanages, a fox hunt, a body riven with cancer. He depicts the early monk scribes who painted otters and griffins to illuminate their manuscripts, much as he seeks images to make sense of a world torn by violence, hurt, and unspoken feelings. Grappling with issues of suffering and faith, he constructs his own stone wall of understanding, cementing it with a host of Classical and early Christian allusions: "The Maker arranges nouns, verbs, adjectives .. and places stones to structure/the storm strafed wall." |