The Zen Follies: (more or Less, Less Is More)

Fil Lewitt is an American novelist, story-teller, essayist, and poet, the author of three thrillers: Tight, Dead White Males, and Millennial Blues. He has also published two books of poetry, a handbook/textbook on writing for Japanese university students, and created the interdisciplinary field of Archeopoetics (archeology, anthropology, and poetics) in a doctoral thesis (University Microfilms), as well as publishing lots of poetry and essays here and there. He has traveled widely, and worked as a jazz musician, dishwasher, restaurant cook, small bookstore owner, store clerk, logger, mill worker, hotel gardener, farmer, designer, carpenter, builder, and university teacher. He has been writing for more than 60 years. Lewitt now lives at the edge of the sea and the jungle in southern Thailand, under towering limestone cliffs.