These poetry videos are among my favorites of yours, love it when they randomly pop up. I always learn things and usually find myself down at least one rabbit hole afterwards. One 10-15 minute video can generate hours of entertainment. I’m off to find that McWhorter column now . . .
Thanks, Patricia--You get it. These are often the results of my own rabbit-hole hours, as you might guess. If you don't have an nytimes subscription, send me an email address at the voxxer or email in my description and I'll share the newsletter with you.
I love John McWhorter! That’s fascinating about poetry in Yiddish. My son was in a Klezmer band for a while and learned to sing some Yiddish songs. I will check out Mark Rubin. I have heard that if a Yiddish speaker goes to Germany, Germans will be able to understand a lot of what they say. Thanks for sharing these poems!
I find McWhorter is always worth reading and his newsletter is probably my favorite thing about a NY Times subscription. Another Mark Rubin tidbit is that he once said (in an interview or a blog post probably) that when he spoke German to natives they thought he sounded Yiddish and when he spoke Yiddish to natives they thought he sounded German.
Your poetry thursdays always offer a different slant - in spite of your diminished views I hope you keep on. Hunter College? Did you ever have Joseph Salemi?
James, he’s my main association with Hunter College - a rightwing formalist poet who has (or had) tons of essays up online, some highly insightful, many so far Right that they about fall off the edge.
These poetry videos are among my favorites of yours, love it when they randomly pop up. I always learn things and usually find myself down at least one rabbit hole afterwards. One 10-15 minute video can generate hours of entertainment. I’m off to find that McWhorter column now . . .
Thanks, Patricia--You get it. These are often the results of my own rabbit-hole hours, as you might guess. If you don't have an nytimes subscription, send me an email address at the voxxer or email in my description and I'll share the newsletter with you.
I love John McWhorter! That’s fascinating about poetry in Yiddish. My son was in a Klezmer band for a while and learned to sing some Yiddish songs. I will check out Mark Rubin. I have heard that if a Yiddish speaker goes to Germany, Germans will be able to understand a lot of what they say. Thanks for sharing these poems!
I find McWhorter is always worth reading and his newsletter is probably my favorite thing about a NY Times subscription.
Another Mark Rubin tidbit is that he once said (in an interview or a blog post probably) that when he spoke German to natives they thought he sounded Yiddish and when he spoke Yiddish to natives they thought he sounded German.
Your poetry thursdays always offer a different slant - in spite of your diminished views I hope you keep on.
Hunter College? Did you ever have Joseph Salemi?
Thanks David. I enjoy your particular slant as well. I confess that I get a perverse satisfaction from the relative unpopularity of my recent output.
I did not have any classes with Joseph Salemi. All my classes were in music and German.
James, he’s my main association with Hunter College - a rightwing formalist poet who has (or had) tons of essays up online, some highly insightful, many so far Right that they about fall off the edge.
I'll have to look into him. While I'm not right wing, my Poetry Thursday department is always on the lookout for kooks.