“Brier Sermon–‘You Must Be Born Again'”: Knowing Your Roots
“Well, I went home./ And when I stepped out of my own front door/ when I knew where I was starting from/ I knew then where I was going./ The […]
poetry
And I Was Alive: Mandelstam and a Moment of Being
And I Was Alive by Osip Mandelstam (tr. Christian Wiman) And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry […]
If China: Combating Displacement
If China by Stanislaw Baranczak (Tr. Magnus J. Krynski) If china, then only the kind you wouldn’t miss under the movers’ shoes or the treads of a tank; if a […]