Amatoria

Amatoria explores the poetic discovery of God as it is encountered by both the living and the dying. Its central idea is that people come to understand death and love only once they are clothed in them, and that God is always ready to carry life from one state into the other. The book is deliberately veiled, offering its meaning partly through what it discloses and partly through what it conceals.

One observer has remarked that the devil led the author only a short way further into the medulla of the brain, so readers are left to grasp the rest for themselves. The book's closing thought is that, amid the self-indulgent disorder of the 21st century, God still puts an end to the old order in the old manner.