A commentary track and the paperback cover

I have puzzled over what this blog should be about. Remittance Man isn't Ulysses---its symbolism, self-allusion, and literary apparatus are fairly straightforward---but it does contain lots of little things---objects, references, and hidden messages---that could be fleshed out and commented upon. That is what most of the blog will be, at least for now---a sort of commentary track pointing out the many interesting things encountered by the hero of our poem. First though, a production note: the proof of the cover came out looking just like I thought it would:

It's a shame I lost the summit of the mountain, but it had to be this way. The paperback should be in some of the usual places online already, and available to stores and distributors in about a week.