"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. **** "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." -- Hàn Mặc Tử, author of Seasons of Suffering