Eugene Guillevic, who died in 1997, was one of France's most important contemporary poets. Dating from 1961, Carnac marks the beginning of Guillevic's mature life as a poet. A single poem divided into several parts, it evokes the rocky, sea-bound, unfinished landscape of Brittany with its sacred objects and its great silent sense of waiting. The texts are brief but have a grave, meditative serenity, as the poet seeks to effect balance and help us to make friends with nature, as well as to live in a universe which is chaotic and often frightening. In this poetry of description -- where entire...

The late Romanian poet Marin Sorescu had a great fondness for Ireland. Several Irish poets have translated his work, including Paul Muldoon, in the recent Romanian poetry anthology, When the Tunnels Meet, and Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, whose translations appear in Sorescu's collection, The Biggest Egg in the World. In 1991, while in Belfast for the opening of an exhibition of his paintings (Sorescu started painting while under house arrest during the 1980s), a group of young Irish poets honored him by reading their personal choice of his poems in English translations. Sorescu...

In this monograph, new structures of neural networks in multidimensional domains are introduced. These architectures are a generalization of the Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) in Complex, Vectorial and Hypercomplex algebra. The approximation capabilities of these networks and their learning algorithms are discussed in a multidimensional context. The work includes the theoretical basis to address the properties of such structures and the advantages introduced in system modelling, function approximation and control. Some applications, referring to attractive themes in system engineering and a...