Webster's 2nd has it. Pooka (Irish, puca) a mischievous or malignant goblin
or specter often appearing in the form of a horse and haunting bogs &
marshes. cf. Puck. best, Sylvester

At 4:22 PM +0100 11/1/00, Alexander Schmitz wrote:
>Dear Pounders,
>
>I am doing a new translation of ALL Coney-Island-poems by Ferlinghetti for a
>publisher in Berlin and cannot refer to my own 1972 translation (Sel.
>Poems) as
>that contained only a selection of Coney (and other LF volumes). Therefore
>this
>call for help.
>
>In poem # 11 we have these 2 lines:
>
>            "and a stray Connemara Pooka"
>                                         (life size)"
>
>Obviously not one of my numerous dictionaries (including "I Hear America
>Talking", "The American Heritage Dictionary" and a very good Websters
>PAPER-ed.)
>offers help as to what a "Connemara Pooka" might be. Must be an (exotic?)
>animal.
>
>I don't want to ask LF directly - or wd only do so if no Pounder out there cd
>offer an explanation.
>
>Thanks anyway,
>
>alex
>
>
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