Free Words
Sal RandolphMore love letter than newsletter. Language between poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction. Art, attention, Zen.
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Just Sitting
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), China, late 10th–early 11th century, Metropolitan Museum.
Dear Friends,
Yesterday I handed my new book manuscript to my editor. Tomorrow I leave for two weeks of silence at the Village Zendo’s annual...
I Hear a Ghost, I See a Sign
Mosaic with bust of Dionysus as a boy, Palazzo Massimo, Museo Nazionale Romano
Dear Friends,
Here’s another episode in my hot classics summer, in which I am visited by ghosts and cry out for the strength to wash away the deeds of the reig...
Caesar Comes
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, via Wikimedia Commons.
Dear Friends,
Welcome to my hot classics summer. Iʻve had Homer in my ears, and Virgil and Shakespeare. Such a confusion of glories, such poetry, such violence!
Iʻm driv...
Ways of Seeing: Queer Disorientation
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, from Color Problems via Public Domain Review.
Dear Friends,
While Pride month is still throwing its glitter around, I thought I would celebrate with this queer “way of seeing” from the archive. It takes inspiration...
Lightning Ragini
Setmalar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes), c. 1630-40, Metropolitan Museum
Dear Friends,
I’ve been in some spectacular storms recently. Have you?
— Sal
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