Claire Daigle writes: In 1959 Twombly executed some of the most spare works of his career, among them the 24 drawings that comprise Poems to the Sea, done on the coast of Italy. What order of poems, punctuated with numerals and question marks, are these? The sea is reduced to horizon line and word, scribblings and…
Tag: Italy
A Palladian Odyssey
or: Seeing and drawing in Veneto with Liz Steel & a group of wonderful sketchers – If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. –Joseph Campbell I…
Things I’ve seen –
I’ve left Cinque Terre with my head full of fantastic memories –Such a beautiful landscape, picturesque towns and delicious food & wine. We have been hiking for five days, I could easily have stayed on for another week or two… The routes were steep, but never too hard – one just have to take one’s…
hiking Cinque Terre
I’m having an early autumn vacation – my plan is to visit Cinque Terre, Pisa & Lucca. The Cinque Terre (Five Lands) is a string of five fishing villages perched high on the Italian Riviera. I’ve never visited this part of Italy before, but from the images I’ve seen (like these snatched from Wikipedia) it looks extremely picturesque. Manarola Corniglia Hiking…
… in the silences between words
Michelle Aldredge at Gwarlingo has just published a very fine post on Christian McEwan. You can read the post here! Christian McEwen was born in Britain, and now lives in Northampton, MA. Over the past two decades, she has taught poetry and creative writing at the New School in New York City; Williams College and Smith…
A glimpse of Triora
I have just returned from the most fantastic & extraordinarily trip to Italy one can ever imagine, actually the town of Triora is inconceivably beautiful, and my snapshots can in no way make the place justice. Still, I would like to give you a hint of what I have seen: Triora is a medieval citadel town, a hill…
I’m off …
… and this is where I’m going: Triora – Liguria, known to be one of the most beautiful medieval citadels in Italy. Much of the architecture in Triora dates back to the 12th century, but its period of greatest fame was during the 16th century when a number of witch trials were conducted by the Inquisition. A year of…
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