09/01/2025
Selected from more than 30 years of W. S. Di Piero's celebrated work, the prose collected in Inside the Box invites readers on a captivating journey through literature, art, and the landscape of memory. From meditations on selling Bibles door-to-door as a teenager to profound encounters with masterpieces in European museums, from the gritty realities of manual labor to the transcendent possibilities of poetry, Di Piero maps the territory where experience becomes art. These essays reveal an artist's mind at work: restless, probing, generous in its attention to both high culture and street-corner wisdom. Inside the Box presents the record of a life lived in passionate search of meaning — and stands as testimony to literature's power to transform the raw materials of existence into lasting revelation.
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