"The Sky Is an Elephant is part imaginary playmate, part near-death high jinks, and part love song from the body to the soul and back again...It's a shaggy dog story, a story within a story, maybe even a koan. A little humor, a little Zagajewski. Finally, it's in homage to poets Jack Spicer and Federico Garcâia Lorca, who played with the greathearted gift of poetry until the day they died. And after." Back cover.