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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