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Alan Sullivan's Psalms
Oct 15, 2011 UPDATE: Part 2 added to the podcast
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I'm delighted to continue the Eratosphere podcast series with the translation of King David's Psalms by Alan Sullivan, in collaboration with long-time Eratospherean and Hebrew scholar Seree Zohar. The Sullivan-Zohar Psalms are the first praiseworthy metrical translation of King David into the English language, and is already enjoying wide acceptance in several premier venues such as First Things and Sewanee Theological Review. This reading performance from Tim Murphy who needs no introduction in these parts, is one of our finest, and includes a chant of Psalm 139 by Monsignor Robert Laliberte in four tone Gregorian mode that's not to be missed.
Alan Thomas Sullivan was born August 14, 1948, in Brooklyn, NY, the only son of Betty and Andrew Sullivan, and died July 9, 2010 in Aventura, FL. A 1970 graduate in English from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, he moved to the Midwest with Timothy Murphy in 1973. He lived in Minneapolis, MN, then Fargo, ND, for 32 years. Diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2005, he relocated permanently to the Fort Lauderdale area of Florida to pursue medical treatment and be near the sea he loved so deeply and missed so dearly during his decades on the prairie.
Alan was a tireless poet, polemicist, raconteur, translator and teacher of poetry. He wrote many books, and much of his writing can be found at www.seablogger.com, the blog he maintained which drew an eclectic group of readers drawn by his disquisitions on weather, volcanology, foreign and domestic policy, poetry and matters of the spirit. Alan was a spiritual seeker all his life, and toward its end he turned to the Catholic Church from which he drew great strength and solace. In his final year he undertook to translate the poems of King David. With the able assistance of Seree Cohen Zohar in Israel, he completed this great, metrical work, which will soon begin appearing in periodicals, and ultimately in book form. All who knew him marveled at the energy he focused on this final task which he completed on June 24, 2010.
A Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Fargo by Monsignor Robert Laliberte The Mass will be at 10:30, Thursday, August Fifth. Memorials can be sent to St. Anthony's Church.
Sullivan is survived by his mother, Betty, and by his literary partner, Timothy Murphy.
Last edited by Alex Pepple; 10-05-2011 at 03:55 PM.
Reason: part 2 of podcast added
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