At Civitella I found an ideal environment to concentrate on my work: the right kind of isolation and a humane silence, never a gloomy one. I also had the good fortune to live in rooms on the upper floors of the castle with windows looking onto the surrounding park....
The earth is a flying carpetif you lie down and followthe clouds. Where will it gowith you upon it?And shelters stuck below. Cars, caves, hotels and shacksfor the old who if they couldwould become mysticsdignified by agreeing to dieand solitary antics. Each would have...
While in residence at Civitella, I made substantial progress on my novel. Because part of  the narrative is set in Italy, and because much of is its imagery draws heavily from masterworks of Italian art, Civitella was the ideal location for me to write. I concentrated...
Here at Civitella, I have been able to see more deeply into the manuscript of poems that I brought with me to complete. Not only have I written poems here that extend the trajectory that I had envisioned for the book, I’ve surprised myself and deeply revised the other...
