"All the trees whose names we have forgotten have long since embraced our entwined limbs." A book of lyrics in the tradition of the fin-de-siècle prose poem,
Songs from the Black Moon is a dark elegy for a forgotten planet and its wandering, somnambulistic inhabitants.
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"A book of beautiful and strangely tranquil outbursts of disaffection and dissolution. I wish everyone on earth lived by the sentiments expressed within it."
--Thomas Ligotti, author of
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race ****
"If poetry amounts to anything, it is its own self-abnegation. The lyrics of the Baroness de Tristeombre are a testament to the luminous annulment of language and bodies and planets, everything dissolving in shadow and night."-- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, author of
Culled from Night "
Songs from the Black Moon gives us writing that descends into the highest form of lyricism, where the muted and impassive world creeps across our fragile and muted bodies."
-- Noh Cheonmyeong, author of
A Forest of Coral "With withered and superstitious hands I read this book. It has had the same impact on me as does a spell - or a prayer."
-- HÃ n Mặc Tử, author of
Seasons of Suffering
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