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07/06/2024

By a sister Zona Rosan:

To a remarkable extent, Jews refused to let themselves slide into hopeless apathy during the Holocaust By Melinda Mandelbaum Stein

01/23/2022

A new book on popularizing chemistry ...

In “Ingredients,” chemist George Zaidan takes a contrarian look at what we really know about what's good for us.

11/25/2021

Minnesota poet Robert Bly passed away today at age 94. He was born in Madison, Minnesota on December 23, 1926. A high school teacher taught him to appreciate poetry, but he didn’t start writing seriously until he joined the Navy after high school. There he befriended a man named Eisy Eisenstein — the first person he had ever met who wrote poems. After the Navy, he spent a year at St. Olaf College on the GI Bill. He said: “A woman my age wrote poetry; I fell in love with her, and I wrote a poem to her. I had the strangest sensation. I felt something in the poem I hadn’t intended to put there. It was as if ‘someone else was with me.’” He transferred to Harvard and applied to work as an editor for the literary magazine, the Harvard Advocate. When the staff interviewed him for a position, he responded with a long, detailed critique of American poetry since 1910. The staff seemed unimpressed, but they accepted him anyway. One day a new student board member turned up, a poet a year younger than Bly named Donald Hall. They became best friends.

After Bly left Harvard, he decided that he didn’t want to teach at a university — he was inspired by his idol, William Carlos Williams, and also by Wallace Stevens, neither of whom was a career professor. So he returned home to his family’s farm in western Minnesota and began to write. Since he was so far away from a literary community, he wrote frequent long letters to his friends and peers: Donald Hall, Tomas Tranströmer, Galway Kinnell, Louis Simpson, and others. Bly and Hall exchanged letters twice a week for decades, with a rule that they had to respond to each other within 48 hours.

Here is a PHC show from 2008 featuring Mr. Bly. Listen - https://bit.ly/3xreZIR

06/18/2021

A reference book of yoga by a scholar of Sanskrit and Yoga.

The Language of Yoga: Complete A to Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants. Condition is "Like New". Shipped with USPS Media Mail. This book is in excellent condition. It includes the 2 original CDs in unopened envelopes in the inside back page. The author Nicolai Bachman is a Sanksrit a...

06/18/2021

A 2004 anthology of 28 Asian American poets who are now big names - includes Paisley Rekdal, Adrienne Su, Aimee Nezhukumatathil among others.

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation edited by Victoria Chang (2004) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

12/08/2020

Excerpt from the memoir Promiseland: An Immigrant's Story (Avinash Bagal), published in the November 2016 issue of Khabar, one of the largest publications in the U.S. to serve Indian-Americans -

http://www.khabar.com/magazine/features/reflections-passage-to-promiseland

11/30/2020

If you're on Amazon, you can order Red Silk Sari, Venusification, and Promiseland there too - but the Holiday Specials are only on Facebook!

11/25/2020

The links to pay for single copies have been fixed!

11/19/2020

The holidays are coming - and so are specials from Red Silk Press!

Stay tuned.