"In summary, what writing requires to retain its vitality as an art form are writers who challenge the public with work that inspires self-improvement and a reading public eager to improve itself through the challenge of literature. Without both these elements thriving in the hearts of people, culture degenerates. And this hinges on the pre-eminence of individuality in society. Vitality isn't found in the exterior considerations of social reciprocation; it depends on a self-searching creative devotion that can only enter society as a second order function of the individual achieving their own highest realization."

- excerpt from "Who I Write For"

Interweaving discussions of famous works of art, the ideas of major philosophers, haiku poetics, as well as various theological and cultural motifs, this collection of essays finds common ground between all of these. Among the offerings provided are a definitive summary of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," a profound meditation on the nature of modernism, an anaylysis of William Blake's "The Temptation and Fall of Eve" revealing its dramatically subversive qualities, and illuminating interpretations of the works of Wittgenstein, Yeats, Kierkegaard, William James, and Heidegger.