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Bailiuchan brea aisti le Gabriel Rosenstock. Foilsiodh cuid mhaith acu ar The Irish Times an chead uair, aisti ina bpleitear reimse leathan abhar agus scata daoine a bhfuil speis aige iontu - Derrick Jensen, David Abram, Amin Maalouf, Wolfi Land streicher, Rabindranath Tagore, Cathal O Searcaigh, Svetlana Marisova agus a thuilleadh nach iad. Ceisteanna a bhaineann le cursai creidimh agus cursai polaitiochta, naisiunachas v. ainrialachas, cuir i gcas, cursai teanga is filiochta, gan amhras, cursai timpeallachta, an haiku. Ta a fhios againn go leir faoin am seo cad is haiku ann, ach cad is renku ann? Leigh leat. Leigh faoin bpobal neamhghnach san India, na Bishnoi, agus go leor leor eile. Lon machnaimh don rara avis sin na laethanta seo, an leitheoir Gaeilge. --- A fine collection of essays by Gabriel Rosenstock. Many were first published in The Irish Times; the essays deal with a wide range and number of interesting people - Derrick Jensen, David Abram, Amin Maalouf, Wolfi Landstreicher, Rabindranath Tagore, Cathal O Searcaigh, Svetlana Marisova and more besides. Issues relating to religion and politics, nationalism v. anarchy, for example, questions of language and poetry, of course, environmental issues, and haiku. We all know nowadays what haiku is, but what is renku? Read more. Read about an unusual community in India, the Bishnoi, and much more. Food for thought for that rara avis of these days: the Irish reader."