River of Light

River of Light charts a voyage that begins in the gathering headwaters of grief and blessing, then floats through the confluence and flow of Eastern spiritual practices. At its delta, it enters the sea with poems about light and death and speculation on the afterlife. The poem from which the book takes its title draws inspiration from "Canto 30" of Dante's Paradiso and Monet's dictum that "the real subject of every painting is light."