I tried something new for me at Civitella – working on two pieces at the same time. Since the pieces were very different, and since my time here was truly my own, I was able to find a simple way to proceed. I divided the day into two parts, starting one piece in...
I bought a T-shirt in the market of yet another lovely Umbrian town, Città di Castello, that bears the logo “to play.” This is how I might characterize my time at the Civitella Ranieri Center. A month at the castle gave me time to play, to experiment without a strict...
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The Light Keeper A night without ships. Foghorns called into walled cloud, and youstill alive, drawn to the light as if it were a fire kept by monks,darkness once crusted with stars, but now death-dark as you sail inward.Through wild gorse and sea-wrack, through...
