Poem

Geronimo (Béarla)

Title	Geronimo (Béarla)
Author	Gabriel Rosenstock

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
An Fuíoll Feá: Woodcuttings: New and Selected Poems	2013	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #563

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	An Fuíoll Feá: Woodcuttings: New and Selected Poems
Date of Publication	2013
Publisher	Cois Life (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	151

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language) HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century)
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Geronimo
Original Author	Liam Ó Muirthile
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This is a short in which the the speaker of the poem connects William Blake's famous poem 'The Tyger' to the human tiger, Geronimo, who was a prominent leader and medicine man in the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe. As a prisoner of the US government in the last 20+ years of his life, he appeared in many travelling shows and world fairs as 'the Tiger of the Human Race', which is where the speaker draws the link between him and William Blake's poem. The speaker of the poem is inspired by Geronimo's spirit and acknowledges his influence on him as a younger man.

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