Passages in Poetry
Poems by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis; Hebrew Translations by Bracha Loren
“These words came after events. They are reflections of occasions – birth, confirmation, marriage, sickness, death – rites of passages.
They are intended to stop the mechanical flow of events, the impersonality of calendrical chronology, the rote of observances.
Poems are meant to arrest our attention, to remind us there is more than meets the eye, more to life than surface appearances.
These poems are commentaries on the outer text of occasions. They are the tropes, accentuation, punctuations of the sentences and paragraphs of our experiences.”
— Harold M. Schulweis, From His Dedication to Passages in Poetry
