Alfred de Grazia wrote the novel in the month following the amazing mass experience in November 1965 of a total blackout of electricity in New York City. He walked out onto the streets with the dawn. The manuscript was put aside for thirty-five years until its present publication on the Web. A book of poems collected and published while the author was in Vietnam in 1967. They represent the variety of styles and rhythms, with the philosophical thrusts, pragmatic and phenomenological, that typically characterize his prose work.
Some poems are as simple as mud pies, others as abstract as medieval scholastics.
A collection of 119 poems, poetry that is a concentration upon profound hypothesis, most in free verse, with sections on ecology, sociograms, places, intimacies, identity, violence, death, gods and the wickedly uncontrollable world. Scandalous and surrealist material in a raucus style. Reminiscent of recent American historical follies. In the summer of 1998, at Naxos, Alfred de Grazia discussed plans for the forthcoming Millennium festival of Stockholm with Swedish friends involved in staging the spectacle. Late in 1998, he decided to submit to the Organizing Committee a scheme for the Festival that would stress the world connections of Sweden and the transition of the Swedes from a medieval people to a post-modern people.