Music for the Black Room

Elemental, essential, and urgent, Music for the Black Room is made vivid by poems that transport through means both spare--at times nearly irreducible--and lush. As the world of the everyday edges into the nocturnal, quotidian moorings give way to the surreal. Mistakes of both action and perception--the siren call of delusion and dream--fuel the fabrication of a psychescape where one thing seems to be another, whether through metaphor or actual error--an inscape of wind, of snow and dirt, where sky looks like water, where water can flame into fire.