From the shifting sands of Ancient Egypt through the cinders of Troy the machinations of an imaginary Roman general in exile to an encounter with Lucifer in a dinosaur denuded landscape an eternal afternoon in Kyoto the much discussed and mysterious disappearance of Nikola Tesla amid the death of poetry and up and up and up into a nearly abandoned office tower in the Age of Pandemic and Paranoia Eric Thomas Norris explores that shady region of the soul where Art and Life intersect: Beauty. And in LETTERS FROM OBLIVION he does it with unflinching grace music wonder and poetry.