To venture into the more poetic/artistic realm, I really recommend Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It’s quite short, but so layered that I actually have a ha

To venture into the more poetic/artistic realm, I really recommend Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It’s quite short, but so layered that I actually have a hard time describing it. Framed as a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, the book is a series of vignettes describing fantastical cities Polo has visited in his travels.