An Interview with Amit Majmudar (new episode)

An episode from 4/3/24: Tonight, I interview the poet, novelist and translator, Amit Majmudar. You can find a full list of his books here, but we spend most of our time talking about his 2018 translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Godsong. Along the way, we also get his take on many of the preoccupations of this podcast: how a life devoted to creativity, religion, family, and an awareness of history and tradition can still be maintained in this strange time of ours.

His book recommendations at the end are:

  • John D. Smith’s abridged translation of the Mahabharata
  • S. Radhakrishnan’s translation of the principal Upanishads
  • The Princeton edition of the Ramayana   
  • Roberto Calasso’s Ardor

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Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.

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#230 – The mythology of the bear, and Byron gets apocalyptic – Human Voices Wake Us

An episode from 5/18/26: Tonight I read about the bear in folklore and mythology from two books everybody should have on their shelves: the Taschen Book of Symbols and the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols. Browsing through either puts you in contact with our best stories and, with the Taschen book, some of our best artwork.Next, I read Lord Byron’s (1788-1824) apocalyptic poem Darkness from 1816. You can read more about the volcanic eruption that inspired poem, and produced the “year without summer,” here.Finally, I read a few passages on revelation and the religious experience from the rabbi, theologian and civil rights activist Abraham Joshua Heshel’s (1907-1962) God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism.The best way to support the podcast is by leaving a review on Apple or Spotify, sharing it with others, or sending me a note on what you think. You can also order any of my books: Time and the River: From Columbine to the Invention of Fire, Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the S4N Pocket Poems series. I also have a YouTube channel where I share poems and excerpts from these books, mostly as YouTube shorts.Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
  1. #230 – The mythology of the bear, and Byron gets apocalyptic
  2. #229 : Mother Earth and myths of mining and agriculture
  3. #228 – What Ted Bundy did on July 14, 1974
  4. #227 – The Great Fire of London and the destruction of Jerusalem
  5. #226: The Vitality and terror of cities
  6. #225 – The invention of the wheel, and the power of storytelling
  7. #224: Let's talk about William Blake
  8. #223 – How to write two novels at the same time, with Charles Dickens
  9. #222: Seamus Heaney – 10 Essential Poems
  10. #221: Volcanoes, Plagues & the Childhood of a Kabbalist

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