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Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma

author, poet, teacher, and performer

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    • THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural
    • The Safety of Edges
    • Give, Eat, and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar
    • Body and Earth
    • A Feast for the Tongue
    • Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo
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The Safety of Edges

Kural 786: The Kural on Friendship

August 30, 2022

Friendship is not a face smiling—friendship / Is a heart that smiles

A verse on the heart of true friends and friendship. From chapter 79, “Friendship.” Translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaTHE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s TirukkuralBeacon Press, Boston

Kural 108: The Kural on Gratitude

August 23, 2022

Forgetting good done is not good—forgetting at once / What is not good—good

A verse on gratitude, memory, and the art of forgetting. From chapter 11, “Gratitude.” Translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaTHE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s TirukkuralBeacon Press, Boston

Kural 1094: The Kural on Young Love

August 16, 2022

When I look she looks at the ground—when I don’t / She looks smiling softly

What a poem and poetry can show us. A verse on looking and longing. From chapter 110, “Knowing Signs.” Translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaTHE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s TirukkuralBeacon […]

Kural 668: The Kural on Clarity of Action

August 9, 2022

Enact without waiting or wavering / Each action seen clearly

Thiruvalluvar and Antonio Machado on seeing clearly and acting. From chapter 67, “Firmness of Action.” Translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaTHE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s TirukkuralBeacon Press, Boston

Kural 102: The Kural on Helping Others in Need

August 2, 2022

Even if small help given in time—far / Far larger than the world

Help doesn’t have to be big to be big. A verse on helping in time. From chapter 11, “Gratitude.” Translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaTHE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s TirukkuralBeacon […]

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