Carmen Bernos de Gasztold

Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (9 October 1919 – 23 September 1995[1]) was a French poet who lived in a Benedictine abbey.

[3] Poet Marianne Moore praised the collection, but X. J. Kennedy criticized them as colorless and dull.

[3][2] Actor Marian Seldes recorded a spoken word album of the poems;[3] composers Ivor R. Davies[4] and Frieder Meschwitz[5] set them to music.

A second volume of similar poems was published in 1965, entitled The Creatures Choir, also translated by Godden.

After World War II she went to live at the Benedictine Abbaye Saint Louis du Temple at Limon.