Paradise and Inferno
The World War I poet Ivor Gurney wrote: “There are strange Hells within the minds War made.” If a new Vietnam War poem is ever written in America, it will be a descent into that…
Tag: Italo Calvino
Recent Reading
Sunday 11 April 2021 Dear Sarah, Thanks for your question about what I’ve been reading. Sometimes I make a plan, then other times I act entirely on instinct. So what follows are examples of each….
What To Do
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live everyday, that we form by being together. There are…
What To Do
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live everyday, that we form by being together. There are…
Received in Today’s Mail
1 paperback, Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium 1 check from S, for Improv Wisdom class tuition 1 graduation ticket for T’s May commencement ceremony, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design 1 hand-written…
This Makes Me Think of Kathy Kelly
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live everyday, that we form by being together. There are…