Bearing Witness

The poet, Paul Celan, was described by his biographer John Felstiner, as a poet who wrote brilliantly about destruction, the Holocaust in Celan’s case. He had used poetry, the biographer said, to create “a language for the unsayable.”

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Fishing for Change

“Are you tired of not catching that fish you know is hiding from you?” the inventor of “The Flying Lure” asks on TV.

Leaning forward in my chair, knowing full well that I have never gone fishing in my life, … Read the rest