Like Jon Anderson and Larry Levis before him, Zola's domestic landscapes and haunted meditations are both comic and surreal. And yet his overall project, his autobiographical, no-bullshit work, is a luminously beautiful acknowledgment of the human struggle toward the inevitable end of things. It's also, however, a testament that the lived life is more than just worthwhile
From the foreword by David Dodd Lee
When a woman carries a bag of groceries like a grudge into a room wallpapered with the cries of birds, imagination writes the world. Again and again in What Glorious Possibilities,...