Mischa Willett is currently serving as Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, though he usually teaches writing and literature at the University of Washington. His writing has recently appeared in Rio Grande Review, Books and Culture, Inch, Basalt, and several other books and journals. Additionally, he is also host of the popular podcast Poems for the People.
I knew Gianlorenzo Bernini was a great sculptor — one doesn’t escape Rome without being marked by that belief, especially if one’s rooms are situated across from the Ponte St. Angelo, bedecked as it is with 12 life-size marble angels of his making — and I knew he was devout (see: St. Theresa in Ecstasy), but this David bothered me.
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