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The Lance
Friday, February 25, 1983
S.A. Experiences ^Veltic
Celebration **
By STORMY INGOLD
NANCY HOGG
Members of the St. An
drews community were
recently given the chance to
experience Ireland’s Celtic
past in a performance by
Tereasa O’Driscoll.
THe one-woman concert
took place Tuesday,
February 15 at 8:00 p.m. in
Avinger Auditorium.
O’Driscoll is considered to be
one of the finest interpreters
of the Celtic tradition. She
has demonstrated her talent
on stages in Dublin, London,
Edinburgh and throughout
the U.S. and Canada.
The performance consisted
of Celtic and Irish songs,
poetry and delightful stories.
The Celtic beliefs in nature as
a manefestation of the divine
and in the power of music to
transform the spirit were in
tertwined with the music and
words. O’Driscoll’s program
was an opening for the peo
ple of St. Andrews to enjoy
the rich culture of the Celts.
After leaving the perfor
mance by Terease O’Driscoll
on Feb. 15, in Avinger
auditorium the crowd pro
ceeded to the christening of
the sculpture garden. As you
approached the sculpture
garden you walked down a lit
path onto the penisula,
which was set in a mode of
an ancient island lit by tor
ches.
The first piece you are in
troduced to is the rock circle
with a fire in the middle. As
one made his way down the
penisula there was mull wine
brewing in a kettle. The wine
was placed beside a gazebo
that is draped with
grapevines winding
Bob (L) and Terease O’Driscoll
downward. The gazebo will
be used as a sanctuary for
refreshments. The next piece
looming at the end of the
penisula was “an carriage”
(the rock). The night was
highlighted by spontaneous
song and poetry by our Keltic
guests, the O’Driscoll. There
was also spontaneous dance
by Chapel Hill professor Eve
Olive. The three pieces along
with the Keltic dance cap
tured the spirit of the Keltic
tradition.
The Keltic tradition em
bodies an interdisciphnary
nature in which all things
cohere and intertwine. The
sculpture garden uses this in
terdisciplinary theme by hav
ing poets, music, theatre, art,
religion, and botany. The cir
cle is important because of
its’ never ending spiritual
context. The Keltics were the
first to use the circle in the
cross, and we can see this in
out cross motif all over cam
pus.
The sculpture garden was
christened by Terease and
Bob O’Driscoll. They
christened the sculpre garden
with the name “An
Carriage” meaning the rock
in Keltic. All of the
ceremony, the fire, and our
guests helped make it a
special night for the arts. The
sculpture garden will con
tinue to grow and be a place
to celebrate the arts in the
outdoors...
As a follow up to the per
formance, a lecture was
given by Robert O’Driscoll
Wednesday at 12:20 p.m. He
is- the director of Celtic
Studies at St. Michael’s Col
lege, University of Toronto,
Canada. His lecture was bas
ed on Celtic myth, art,
literature, history, music,
folklore and archaeology.
The book he recently edited.
The Celtic Consciousness,
covers these topics and is
now on reserve in the hbrary.
Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer at recent poetry
reading.
Williams and Meyers
Entertain S.A.
Four North Carolina Women Poets
By EDNA ANN LOFTUS
FOUR NORTH
CAROLINA WOMEN
POETS is a book of distinct
voices. In unique images and
for individual reasons, Kate
Blackburn, Agnes
McDonald, Shirley Moody
and Mary Carleton Snorther-
ly speak to us of the human
condition. Each vision is
complex; each voice has
many ranges. There is humor
and anger, tragedy and joy,
dream and memory, hope
and terror. Yet the voices,
images, and ideas, though
distinct, are ultimately har
monious. These four women
love language and life. They
are equisitely triumphant in
both.
Kate Blackburn’s poetic
voice is at once tough and
tender, sobering and
humorous. Her images range
wide-from the cold mortali
ty of the corporate boar
droom to Eden after the Fall,
from a woman’s vanity and
devotion on Ash Wedneday
to the sensuous mysteries of
the Sphinx and Narcissus.
She conveys both the fire and
the ashes of love and can
treat a woman’s suicide with
terrible simplicity. Her
literary debts are to Stevens,
Pound, and Joyce, but she
combines a strongly in
dividual woman’s need to
touch and embrace her
natural world with an equally
unique ability to analyze,
probe, and transform her
own and other’s experiences.
Once you have read Kate
Blackburn’s poetry neither
your own backyard nor the
wilderness of Christ’s temp
tation, neither the serpent
nor an auto accident will ever
seem quite the same. No
garden will be free from
death nor accident without
laughter.
Agnes McDonald is a poet
sensitive to time and change
nature and recreates the
world of humanity.
Memories are crucial to her
poems-memories of gardens
and old barns, of departures
and homecomings. She finds
in nature powerful images of
the unity of past and present,
of hope in the midst of time,
change, and death. She finds
magic too, but not the major
of innocence; rather the
magic of hope grounded in
the reality of time and its
passage. In a poem about an
antique millefoir
paperweight she can both
acknowledge and transcend
time as two women com-
municate out of their
separate realms of joy and
agony. Agnes McDonald
wishes with all of us that
“everything we love should
last forever.” Although in
life this is impossible, in her
poems the joy of life and the
pain of its passing do endure
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By BILL LIDE
Johnathon Williams and
Thomas Meyer, co-editors of
the Jargon Press and fre
quent visitors to St. An
drews, made another sojurn
to the campus for a poetry
reading and slide presenta
tion on Feb. 17-18.
A large crowd of approx
imately 75 people packed in
to the lobby of Winston-
Salem dorm to hear the two
poets deliver their con
trasting styles of prose and
poetry.
Meyers, a graduate of
Bard College and the assis
tant editor of the Jargon
Press, started the reading
with some of his newer
writings and finished with a
rendition of “The Bang
Book”, a poem he pubhshed
in 1971.
Meyers low key delivery
complimented his style
perfectly by emphasizing the
serious vein that runs
through most of his poetry.
Williams, creator and ex
ecutive director of the Jargon
Press, has been busy with
writing and photography for
over 30 years and, like
Meyer, lives on both sides of
the Atlantic, either in
Highlands, N.C. or the Cum
brian Dales of England.
Williams entertained the
audience with his humorous
colloqualisms and ethnic
poetry that covered both
England and the U.S., which
create a perfect contrast to
Meyer’s most subtle delivery.
Both writers are currently
working on new projects that
should be published within
the year, and, to the hope of
all who were at the reading,
should be back to St. An
drews in the future.
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