This is a podcast version, a bit elaborated and updated, from the blog post of the same name, which you can find here.
Category: Sea of Intimacy
Writing as Gift (podcast)
This is a podcast version, a bit elaborated and updated, from the blog post of the same name, which you can find here.
Prospero in the Adriatic
This is a podcast version of the earlier “prospero in the adriatic” blog post, which you can find here. ###
Two Grammars
This is a podcast version of the earlier “grammar of animacy and grammar of intimacy” blogpost, which you can find here.
Two Islands
This is a podcast version, a bit elaborated and updated, from the blog post of the same name, which you can find here.
The Grammar of Animacy and the Grammar of Intimacy
I think my first section is finished. It is Me Bastard, You Bastard, an extension of and enrichment (I sincerely hope) upon an essay David Hamilton published many years ago in The Iowa Review. It was after I read the kernel of that essay aloud to a small group of poets and writers I had… Continue reading The Grammar of Animacy and the Grammar of Intimacy
Thinking with the Wind
Bridging cultural and natural approaches to the world can be a challenge. The interrelations are obvious, but connecting them in writing can sometimes feel arbitrary: from an ecological perspective, after all, everything is connected, so why one might start with one connection over another is as likely to be motivated by personal, rhetorical, or storytelling… Continue reading Thinking with the Wind
Trieste as Cultural Nexus (rather than “nowhere”)
When Jan Morris opens her 2001 Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere with the phrase, “I cannot always see Trieste in my mind’s eye,” I feel bad for her. When she adds, rhetorically, it seems, “Who can?” I want to object, “Well, I can!” Probably the difference in our perceptions comes from how each of… Continue reading Trieste as Cultural Nexus (rather than “nowhere”)
Writing as Gift
I had a consultation with a writing coach recently because I recently wrote myself into an impasse and needed help. I published this person’s work many years ago, and while I don’t know her well as a person, I see that she has skills and sense, and this is what I wanted, especially from someone… Continue reading Writing as Gift
Fulbright and Sea of Intimacy
I’ve been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to continue — to finish! — my book on the Adriatic. Watching the welcome videos from Donna Brazile and a senior official in the Department of State this morning, I couldn’t help feeling relieved that I did not receive this award during the presidency of the previous person… Continue reading Fulbright and Sea of Intimacy
Russell Scott Valentino 