The Immortality of Zeno
The Immortality of Zeno, a book of lyric essays and poetry, is autobiographical and esoteric, yet it touches on the most tangible facets of daily living, pushing the banal towards the richly descriptive, the fantastic, and the deeply philosophical. It is both cynical and profoundly spiritual, placing all reverence in nature, history, and art.
Set mostly in New Orleans, and partly in a small college town in Illinois, this book reflects on love, illness, the realization of our desires, and acceptance or resistance to disappointment.