Listening to the Other: Versions of Yiddish, Vietnamese, and Aztec Poetry

In this work, the author makes it a point to try to connect meaningfully and purposefully with the “other”—whether that “other” is a Yiddish jazz poet, a Vietnamese poet-educator, or an anonymous Aztec singer of songs. Since poetry is a genre with which the author feels quite comfortable, he deliberately uses translated verse as a means of connecting with each of the poets from the three different cultures mentioned above.