What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Heller on “Bandelette de Torah”
"When I first saw the bandelette in the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, in Paris’s Marais district, I immediately experienced one of those Rilkean “bursts,” for here was an object, that in its ornate yet near-transparent being, invoked so much of the social, cultural and historic struggles of the Jews which are writ large across and infuse the whole of Western culture from earliest times through the rise of Christianity and the Church fathers, on up to the Shoah." |
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"Epic Signs"
"In Greece in the eighth century B.C., Homer began composing an epic poem, The Odyssey, which would become one of history’s most influential pieces of literature. More than a millennia later, the classic has been translated into American Sign Language (ASL) for the first time—by a St. Mary’s University graduate student."
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