John Mauk Guest Posts on The Rumpus - "THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: SEVEN NIGHTS"

Excerpt:"As a whole, Seven Nights is poetry—a carefully sculpted expression of wonder. And like the best poetry, it is also a distillation of volumes, a concentration of philosophy, religion, mythology, and even psychology. It looks hard at how people conjure and dream, how we yearn and tremble, how we fake ourselves out, and how gurus sometimes get beyond fakery. It is sweeping, polemical, non-stop beautiful, and terrifically destructive."For the full guest post, click here: therumpus.net