A mélange, gallimaufry, miscellany of styles and subjects and genres, from "realist" to "surrealist," from autobiography and memoir to essays on poetry and art, novel excerpts, "lost narratives," travelogues, stories and myths created by a self which "cannot be seen but which is in everything." There are speculative excursions into such topics as debt, architecture, art history and into the question of "what is there to know about anything?", taking nothing for granted, propelled by the desire to live in "a dream of newness," go as deep as possible into possibility "outside the box," contradictory, favoring process and "experience of the world," treating it as fertile ground for speculation and play, "as if today was everyone's birthday," with language bright and textured, spare, luxurious, everything played over by a muse at once comic and contemplative.