March 30, 2019
Review: Kural by Tiruvalluvar
Tiruvalluvar. Kural. Translated and edited with an Introduction by P. S. Sundaram. Penguin Classics India, 1990. 168 pages. The Kural generally goes by the title Tirukural, where the “Tiru” […]
April 22, 2016
Clowns and Poetry (Part One)
Ann Arbor’s weather of late has been a bit berserk. It snowed two weeks ago; then it was eighty degrees. Today it’s gray and rainy, conditions that pass for spring-like […]
June 13, 2011
Short Takes: Rhyming Stanzas and Revolutions
A new translation of the 15th-century Indian poet Kabir is making waves. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can help me heal. Joel Brouwer: “It’s harder to […]
September 20, 2010
All Apologies, or, Watching and Wondering
This past Friday I attended Yom Kippur services with a Jewish Renewal community in Ann Arbor. Judaism isn’t my tradition — I was raised a Unitarian, which, in my experience, […]