My New Book

It finally arrived today! Over the last few weeks, this book has been mentioned on a few blogs I read, and the description was so intriguing that I ordered a copy. Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl, by N. D. Wilson, is described as a poem, play, and novel. In the preface, the author explains how the book came into being:

"Here's how it happened: Philosophers of various sizes and shapes and flavors and ages crowded into the saloon of my skull and began throwing elbows to make some space. Poets and preachers piled in with them. John Donne said some zippy things about Kant, and the ancients wouldn't stop snickering at the moderns. On top of that, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (that fabulously large Catholic writer) overheard someone making fun of Milton (it didn't matter that the insults were all true)."

The video consists of excerpts from the "Welcome" chapter. I already know I am going to enjoy the journey into Wilson's "wide-eyed wonder in God's spoken world."

Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl trailer from Gorilla Poet Productions on Vimeo.