Jack DeFeo is the wandering poet. In this collection, Z.M. Wise explores his sense of self through the character of Jack DeFeo whose mission is to spread the message that poetry lives all over the globe. He brings out the inner honesty of his comrades and seeks the golden clime of selfhood where the traveler's journey will be done. Cover graphic is the design work of Cheyanne Henslee.

Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

Jack DeFeo is the wandering poet. In this collection, Z.M. Wise explores his sense of self through the character of Jack DeFeo whose mission is to spread the message that poetry lives all over the globe. He brings out the inner honesty of his comrades and seeks the golden clime of selfhood where the traveler's journey will be done. *This book is available for a lower cost of $10.00 by hand from the author. However, all online sales require a higher price.

""Life is a journey filled with despair. Come along if you dare. Every which way you turn, things will always your soul burn. This book takes you through the mind of a would be poet, the darker times of his life, and the way things came to light.""

You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living. I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there. No one to appreciate me. The legality of it upset a chair. Many times to celebrate we were called together and where we had been there was nothing there, nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely, leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering, in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there. -- from "The New Higher"

This book presents radically revised and updated versions of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy, attempting to define pagan and Christian elements in early Byzantine literary culture. The longest chapter presents a new account of the closing of the Academy of Athens, and a new article discusses recent theories on the date of the epigrammatist Palladas.