Acts of Levitation by Laynie BrowneSpuyten Duyvil, 2002

Beautiful and obscure, flights of fancy, flights of language. A photographer and a writer: light, images, reflections, mirror-images. Constructions: creating the self, creating images, creating reflections. A clothing-optional tearoom, water everywhere, birds and plants and city streets, visions and dreams: no idea what’s past or present, what’s real or not (but in books, do such distinctions matter)? Repetition of words and phrases, illuminations that still leave questions, uncertainties. The kind of book that, upon finishing, you want immediately to begin again.