Paul Attinello

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  • A beautiful light

    The light, not yet dusk but getting there slowly in this far northern clime, is beautiful. It’s been a real summer for weeks on end, which is rare here. I’m not completely incapacitated, at least not for blog-writing, but have been in a sort of reactionary hibernation after traveling – although I’ve been back for…

  • … plugged in…

    Okay, this is basically way too cool for me to get away with it, but I’ll go with the flow… After two weeks of too much travel and stress, intermittently interrupted by enjoyable things with people I like (and love), and even too-brief fragments of relaxation, I’m on the last night of the conference in…

  • … away…

    Mexico City, via Paris. Conference. Washington, D.C. Family, and major U.S. holiday. York. (No, not the New one, just York.) Conference. And then back. Perhaps I shall have interesting things to write about at that point….

  • Wrong mountain

    David Hirson has written two plays – and only two: La Bête (1991), an extraordinarily peculiar tour de force in rhyming verse that actually reached Broadway before flopping and is often done by the braver regional theaters, and Wrong Mountain (2000), a bitter but brilliant piece on devoting your life to the wrong goals (i.e.…

  • work… ing

    meeting. meeting. meeting. angry clash. meeting. meeting. meeting.home. uninterested in much. trying to do real work on paper for next week.meeting. meeting. lunch in staff room. meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. home. DVD player is broken, can’t play movies. Trying to tell me something?meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. So, these seven habits of highly successful…

  • The Exodus

    (fragments from an ancient manuscript) [This was, strangely enough, my first published poem, back in 1990; at the time it was an obvious response to the disintegration of arts funding under the Reagan and Bush administrations, and the trials of artists who were regarded as inappropriately shocking to be funded by the National Endowment for…

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