An audio adaptation of my written piece Comprehensible Good, Incomprehensible Evil: The Life and Works of Primo Levi.
Primo Levi
Italish
It turns out language isn't set. It's not some solid thing that exists in your head fully formed. It changes, morphs, and flows over time. This is all the more true in a foreign context where a different language can climb right in and make itself at home without you even noticing. Next thing you… Continue reading Italish
Il Nuovo Normale
When the reality began to set in... When I recorded this, the lasting horror of this situation had only just begun to sink it. The atmosphere outside became quieter, but not peaceful. It was bleak, and is still bleak, all the more so now that the weather has turned balmy and bright. Italians should be… Continue reading Il Nuovo Normale
La Quarantina
The beginning was so much lighter... When I recorded this, I was only three weeks in. Now I've lost track of the weeks. At this point it's been over two months, but that hardly seems important given what's happening in the outside world. My world has become my room and my mind seems to have… Continue reading La Quarantina
doubt
Perhaps totality is over-rated; the completeness of you-ness and me-ness. Souls may touch, but they can never merge. But if they did, there would be no you-ness or me-ness. And then what would we have to love?
black seed
This piece was originally written for a Creative Writing class at NYU. you take refuge in my abundance let me mark you with my blood douse you and make you my own together we are in the terror of beauty our oneness incomplete with yearning once twice three times we rock softness pierced with pain with soft growling against the drum of my ear i wonder… Continue reading black seed
Susana di Palermo
This piece was originally written for a Creative Writing class at NYU Paris taught by Eugene Ostashevsky. Habibi, … Continue reading Susana di Palermo
Comprehensible Good, Incomprehensible Evil: The Life and Works of Primo Levi
This piece was originally published by La Pietra Dialogues on March 28, 2017. Find the original article here: http://www.lapietradialogues.org/blog/?p=7339 The Jewish-Italian writer, poet, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi was born in Turin on July 31, 1919. His birth, life, and death would all take place in the same fourth-floor apartment, other than a brief stint… Continue reading Comprehensible Good, Incomprehensible Evil: The Life and Works of Primo Levi
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