Gary Jones

So here is my book. Like all good poets, I have attempted to turn my self inside out, so to speak. To take what most people see as reflections of the light that occurs without, and reveal it from it's source, the light that occurs or is reflected from within...the third eye. And all this for your benefit and amusement. It is a loosely organized collection of what I like to call word pictures, or painting with language. This is literary work set in a stream of consciousness style reminiscent of Whitman, Joyce, and Cummings. The content spans the life a single individual, and reveals the inner and outer visions of a single poet.

In 1991, with communism in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, Jones journeyed to a most unlikely destination: Albania. What he found was a relentlessly bizarre world of half-truths and fictions, a world where your status and sometimes your life hinged on your biografi. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year. Map.