Nicholas is an orphan. Abandoned in a mysterious aviary in the depths of the forest, he is raised by an old man who teaches him all there is to know about the birds with which they share a home. But when the old man dies the boy sets off on a pilgrimage full of allegory to find a phoenix.
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R. Nemo Hill is the author, in collaboration with painter Jeanne Hedstrom, of an illustrated novel organized according to the processes of medieval alchemy, Pilgrim's Feather (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002), a narrative poem based upon a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press, 2004), and a chapbook, Prolegomena to an Essay on Satire (Modern Metrics, 2006). Editor of EXOT Books, he lives in New York city, but has for over twenty years traveled frequently to Southeast Asia.
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