Here is my review in the Los Angeles Review of Books of a great collection of letters by a great poet: Volume 3 of The Collected Letters of Robert Frost.
Looking forward to this conversation tomorrow – and to the good wine that will accompany it… https://www.facebook.com/events/370623710972950/?ref=newsfeed
This is a review of a remarkable verse-novel that came out last year: Sissy by Ben Borek. The review has appeared in the latest issue of Semicerchio, the Italian journal of ‘poesia comparata’. The review is in English. ...
This year is the first since the war (I think) without fireworks for the Festa del Redentore, the biggest event in the Venetian calendar. For five centuries Venetians have continued to celebrate the delivery of the city from the plague, crossing a purpose-built...
View from the Rialto Bridge No, there are no dolphins in the canals of Venice. I believe they have been seen in the past in the lagoon but the photo that is circulating at the moment (at least the one I keep seeing) is from Cagliari, Sardinia. Here’s a link to an...
So, as I anticipated in my last post, yesterday I had the opportunity to take a long walk across Venice, since I had to go to the university to act as Chairman of a “commissione di laurea”, sitting in front of a computer and connecting telematically with the students...
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