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| Detail from “The School of Athens” a fresco by Raphael (1483 – 1520) [Click image to call up all published instalments] |
Back in the summer of 2019, I heard a word that kept me up all night, trying to figure out how I could use it in a poem. That word was Pasticcio.
Pasticcio is another term for pastiche, which refers to an artistic work consisting of a medley of pieces taken from various sources.
For me, it brought to mind a poetry collaboration and because it sounded so close to pistachio, reminded me of my favorite summer moments in Wisconsin, eating Almond Pistachio pudding turned into ice cream, then playing on the shore and in the waters of Lake Ripley. What if we did an artistic collaboration about our memories with pudding?
