At Colin’s behest, we were watching Julius Caesar, and the kids were responding to one of the great little games kids can play with Shakespeare, namely the “Oh, that’s where that came from” reaction to famous quotations. They were not moved by “Beware the Ides of March!” or “Et tu, Brute,” but they lit right up with Casca’s comment to Cassius, describing an overheard conversation not conducted in Latin: “It’s Greek to me.”
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
