The Creatures' Choir — Rumer Godden

De Gasztold, Carmen Bernos / Godden, Rumer (translator). The Creatures' Choir. Illustrated by Jean Primrose. New York, The Viking Press, 1965. 16 cm x 23 cm. 69 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent, FINE condition. Includes for example the following poems: The Lion / The Lamb / The Centipede / The Snail / The Starfish / The Ladybird / The Toad / The Mole / The Spider / The Fly etc. Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919, in Arcachon - 1995) was a French poet. She spent her childhood in the province of Bordeaux, France. She had 5 sisters and brothers. After World War II she went to live at the Benedictine Abbeye Saint Louis du Temple at Limon-par-Igny. Her family were of Lithuanian descent (Gasztold being the Polish rendering of the Lithuanian name Goštautas). The English translation was written by Rumer Godden (1907-1998) who went to the Benedictine Abbey in France and spent time with the poet to do the translation! (Wikipedia)