Mrrzy, thanks for the memory jolt...I first found "Mots d'Heures: Gousse, Rames" as a college freshman in 1970. I don't think it's ever been equalled. Now I have to go rummaging through boxes of books to see if I can still find it!

I presume by your reference to "Mots d'Heures" that the Gaelic in your piece makes "sense" (loosely, I imagine) in Gaelic, as well as sounding like English when read aloud. I have noticed sometimes when listening to Irish or Scottish Gaelic songs that what sounds like an English phrase will suddenly "pop out." To carry that out for pages and pages would be a real tour de force. Wish I knew the language and could appreciate it fully.

By the way, I recall once hearing some of the poems from "Mots d'Heures" read on the radio. It might have been an interview with the author, but I wonder if they've ever been recorded. Might be fun with music!

Aloha,
Mark