Last week’s death of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, 1996 Nobel prize winner, gives me the occasion to share a wonderful poem about the mystery of what others think of us and why they behave as they do.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Eli, the Unpromising Youth of Fairy Tales
Eli Manning is like the unpromising younger brother in fairy tales who surprises his elders and takes home the gold.
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Midwife, No Doc, at Grandson’s Birth
My new grandson had the birth experience denied Tristram Shandy: one where a midwife was in charge.
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A Knowledge Born of Suffering
Rumi’s poem “The Lame Goat” has offered solace to those suffering from physical and emotional setbacks.
Can Poetry Be Bad for You?
The possibility that poetry can have a deleterious effect on one (the poetry of Scott and Byron anyway) is a possibility that Austen brings up in “Persuasion.”
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Singing the Miracle of New Birth
“As the robin singeth after rain,” so are we all singing after the birth of my first grandchild.
