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Travel writing has been popular since Herodotus first jotted down his observations while journeying abroad. Now Tim Cahill adds Pass the Butterworms to the genre, and a welcome addition it is. As in his earlier books Jaguars Ripped My Flesh,A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, and Pecked to Death by Ducks, Mr. Cahill chronicles his trips to the far-flung corners of the world. Part of this author's charm is his resolute Everyman persona--he is neither remarkably brave nor extraordinarily competent. This is a man, after all, who capsizes his sea kayak in still waters and describes his rock-climbing experience as "hanging from a rope affixed to a diaper, which I am wearing in the place where diapers are most often worn. . . ."

Not all of Tim Cahill's essays in Pass the Butterworms are comic, however. Perhaps the most memorable in the collection is "A Darkness on the River," Cahill's account of the senseless murder of a friend's son in Peru and its aftermath. And even his funniest tales have a bittersweet quality to them--the inevitable by-product of an outsider looking in..
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The Poets' Book of Psalms is a complete English-language translation of the Psalms by almost 50 poets from the 16th to the 20th centuries The formidable team of translators includes John Milton, Philip Sidney, Mary Herbert Sidney, Henry Vaughn, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Burns, and Christopher Smart. On numerous pages of this book, translations made centuries apart appear right next to one another. This stylistic disorientation can be spiritually invigorating: readers are reminded of the eternally fresh meanings hidden in the Bible's familiar words. Here, for example, is George Herbert's translation of the first verses of the 23rd Psalm: "The God of love my shepherd is, / And he that doth me feed: / While he is mind, and I am his, / What can I want or need?" For comparison, a complete King James Version of the Psalter is at the back of the book. --Michael Joseph Gross.
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bilingual edition, poems from Hafez, Rumi et al .
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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Making of America monographs collection .
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