Cell Angel

by Menna Elfyn (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $11.30

  The book's title is double-edged: her cell is not just prison but also a place for contemplation, while her angel is both Eastern and Christian. She draws on Tibetan Tulku thought as well as Indian Boddhisattva.Menna Elfyn is one of the most significant poets currently writing in Wales. Her conspicuous moral and political commitments, international in scope, are always underwritten by her prior commitment to language. She has read world-wide and twice was imprisoned for publicly protesting the decline in the use of Welsh language. In 1995 she wrote a play on the silenced voices of the Mabinogi.