Girl with Mandolin by Picasso
Relativity and Cubism
Gentle blogee, I apologize for being gone so long. Among many things, the virus has drastically altered our lifestyles and priorities and routines. I am optimistic that a vaccine will…
Photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger
Questions
I am finishing a lovely autobiographical novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by the young Vietnamese poet Ocean Vuong. Vuong is extraordinarily original and imaginative in his use of language…
photo by Keegan Houser
Solitude
O! Solitude, my sweetest choicePlaces devoted to the night, Remote from tumult, and from noise, How you my restless thoughts delight! “Solitude,” Katherine Philips (1632-1664) translation of Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant Until the age…