Arguing that we live in the city of gold - a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets have become the dominant force, this title touches on its historical foundation; an assessment of its political scope; its current discontents; and ways to make a better world from within it.

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.

Speaking of Gods analyzes the figurative-narrative creation of gods, their heavenly abodes, and behaviors, reaching back to the beginning of history in Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Persia and Greece, and continuing through the figures and narratives of a biblical tradition that includes the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an.