{"product_id":"murmur-paperback-2","title":"Murmur - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMenna Elfyn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenna Elfyn's dual language Welsh-English collection \u003cem\u003eMurmur \u003c\/em\u003eis full of murmurings, such as the need 'to walk the earth as if there's a baby sleeping next door'. \u003cem\u003eMurmur\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetry of meditation, from the reverberations of dead poets to murmurs of the heart which force the poet to dwell on the irregular beat of the poet's lot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistant sounds too are heard from captivity in a sequence of poems about the last princess of Wales, Catrin Glyndwr, daughter of Owain Glyndwr, who was incarcerated with her children in the Tower of London for over two years until their mysterious death. Fittingly enough, \u003cem\u003emur-mur\u003c\/em\u003e in Welsh also means \u003cem\u003ewall-wall\u003c\/em\u003e, so the book's \u003cem\u003eleitmotif\u003c\/em\u003e is one that stresses the distance between words and worlds - and the way poetry is a language beyond language which we can sometimes only grasp through sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. \u003cem\u003eMurmur\u003c\/em\u003e was her first new book since \u003cem\u003ePerfect Blemish: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems \/ Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad \u0026amp; Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007\u003c\/em\u003e, and includes translations of poems by Welsh folk hero and poet of peace Waldo Williams (1904-71) which challenge the notion of the Celtic melancholy and testify to a 'hesitant hope'. Her own poems have facing English translations by leading Welsh poets: Elin ap Hywel, Joseph P. Clancy, Gillian Clarke, Damian Walford Davies and Paul Henry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351240229113,"sku":"9781852249441","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MUsrWE9TaG95L3pkOHRJTFVwU3R1dz09.webp?v=1769795818","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/murmur-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}