Voodoo Inverso

In this debut collection,

, Mark Wagenaar composes a startling mystical imagism and sets it to music, using self-portraits to explore differing physical and spiritual landscapes. He uses a variety of personae�� victim of sex trafficking in Amsterdam, a fichera dancer, a portrait haunted by Dante, a carillonneur of starlight, an elephant in pink slippers remembering its beloved��o silhouette the intricacies and frailties of the body and the world. In a series of ��ospels��and ��istories����uch as the poems ��istory of Ecstasy��and ��oth Hour Gospel����e shines a light on the possibilities of transcendence and transfiguration, weaving together memory and loss with desire and hope.