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Read more: To be “resilient optimists” in a Time of Crisis
In my hometown of Oakland, New Jersey, there are two lakes: Mirror Lake and Crystal Lake. My family home was on Mirror Lake, which was commonly known as “Little Lake.” I recall the summer days when we neighborhood children gathered to swim and the winter afternoons when we skated. Occasionally, I would take my bamboo…
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Read more: Translating Judith Herzberg
The Dutch poet and playwright Judith Herzberg has presented the world with a body of work that reveals her sensitivity to fine details of a moment, those details she observes, and to the language required to express the subject. She discerns in the mundane what is elusive to others. Pieter Vandermeer writes of Ms. Herzberg:…
Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal 