Sea of Intimacy

Sea of Intimacy: The Adriatic Real and Imagined is an ongoing book project about the Adriatic and the worlds that meet along its shores.

The materials collected here are not chapters from the book. They are related essays, notes, reviews, reflections, and explorations that have informed the project along the way.

For shorter observations, photographs, and updates, visit the Sea of Intimacy Facebook page.

Start Here

• Where Donkeys Go
• Looking for Lucy
• The Grammar of Animacy and the Grammar of Intimacy

The Book (on making it)

• From Six Parts to Five (and a pre-part)
• The Sea’s Direction
• Teaching the Sea of Intimacy
• A Boost and Patience

Adriatic Essays

• Where Donkeys Go
• Looking for Lucy
• Two Islands
• Thinking with the Wind
• Trieste as Cultural Nexus

Reading Around the Sea

• My Roman History
• Prospero in the Adriatic
• Kaplan’s Adriatic
• Murina
• H is for Hawk

Many of these essays also engage questions of language, translation, and cultural encounter, connecting Sea of Intimacy to the broader concerns explored elsewhere on this site.