Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Erik Vatne on Romancing the Dead

I was reading Romancing the Dead again tonight. It's such a beautifully produced chapbook. Tearoom Books did a great job.

At the moment I keep coming back to 'Cosmic Debris.' I love a book like this because like a good album one can play one song over and over again before discovering the rest of the record.

There is an effortless and deceptive simplicity to these poems and yet they are like magic spells. I love what I don't know and that's what keeps me returning to these exquisite pieces.

Erik Vatne, author of Cartographies of Silence