Alex, Try theOED. Pooka, Phooka In Irish folklore a spirit or animal spirit or some such. Don't have my OED with me. Also, appears in Yeats. Carlo Parcelli 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 > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Alexander Schmitz - Kleine Moorstrasse 8A - D-21640 Horneburg - Germany > Ph:(49)4163-7565 - Fx: 7549 - Mob: 0177-5128767 - eM: [log in to unmask] -- ÐÏ à¡± á