READING:

Maya Arad’s The Hebrew Teacher; Dante’s Inferno; and Italo Calvino’s Fiabe Italiane

The Calvino book is a treasure in these difficult days the world is having. I’ve always liked folktales, but Calvino’s collection, translated from dialect to Italian, has retained a sense of region. True to the way of folk literature, the collection of Calvino’s stories is by turns wonderfully funny, profoundly wise, and, faithful to the genre, powerfully imaginative.

I mention 3 books, but I am part way into several books, which I keep on the stand near my favorite chair. I’d like to say that I never watch movies, never scroll on my phone, but it’s not true – especially if I’m ill. On those days, I can become obsessed with the tortuous plots and fast action of Korean historical films.

WRITING:

The third book in my Leah Contarini Series, The Spaces Between the Threads, is out in paperback and Kindle from Amazon, Barnes & Noble etc. so I am at work on the next book – a new series also set in Italy, but Venice this time. And I’ve promised myself at least one new poem a week, to keep alert to the various possibilities of language.

QUOTE TO REMEMBER:

Don’t look back; you’re not going that way.