Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold | |
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Born | [1] | October 9, 1919
Died | September 23, 1995[1] | (aged 75)
Occupation | Poet |
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (9 October 1919 – 23 September 1995
Her most famous collection is titled Prayers from the Ark. The 1955 publication consists of short poems, each expressing a prayer from some animal on Noah's Ark.[1][2] The book was translated into at least six languages, including an English version by Rumer Godden.[3] Poet Marianne Moore praised the collection, but X. J. Kennedy criticized them as colorless and dull.[3][2] Actor Marian Seldes recorded a spoken word album of the poems;[3] composers Ivor R. Davies[4] and Frieder Meschwitz[5] set them to music.
A second volume of similar poems was published in 1965, entitled The Creatures Choir, also translated by Godden.[3]
She spent her childhood in the province of
Her family were of Lithuanian descent (Gasztold being the Polish rendering of the Lithuanian name Goštautas).[6]
Works
- Prières dans L'Arche, French & European Pubns, 1985, ISBN 978-0-685-11511-4
- Choral de Bêtes, French & European Pubns, 1985, ISBN 978-0-685-11121-5
English translation
- Prayers from the ark and the Creatures' choir, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, Translator Rumer Godden, Penguin Books, 1976
- Prayers from the ark: selected poems, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, Translator Rumer Godden, Illustrator Barry Moser, Reprint Puffin Books, 1995, ISBN 9780140545852
- Prayers from the ark: selected poems, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, Translator Rumer Godden, Illustrator Barry Moser, Reprint Puffin Books, 1995,
- Bernos de Gasztold&f=false "The Prayer of the Dog", To absent friends: a collection of stories of the dogs we miss, Editor Jameson Parker, Willow Creek Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-57223-706-3
References
- ^ a b c d "Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919-1995)". BnF Data. Bibliothèque nationale de France. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ JSTOR 20590001.
- ^ JSTOR 41386433.
- ^ Roberts, H. A. (1970). "Obituary: Ivor R. Davies, F.R.C.O., LJLA.M". Musical Opinion. 94: 483.
- ^ Frieder Meschwitz, Tier-Gebete for spoken voice and piano, Frankfurt: W. Hansen, 1980.
- ^ "Bozonarodzeniowa-modlitwa-kota" (in Polish). ulubiency.wp.pl. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.