Navigating the Quartz Forest

Each dreamlike lyric in Biman Roys Navigating the Quartz Forest is charmingly paired with a small handwritten note hastily jotted down on blue-lined notebook paper-artifacts from his daughters life outside the family home. All through the evening we keep talking nonessentials / tiptoeing around secret tulips he says. These notes like scraps of overheard conversations removed from their natural habitats become the crystalline seeds of new poems. Side-by-side with each other the poems act as translator for these somewhat oracular messages from an unknown world of teenage gossip and pop culture references fitting the pieces together like a shattered mirror and filling in the jagged-edged gaps with the poets expansive imagination. In Navigating the Quartz Forest Roys whimsical poems become a sparkling tribute from a father to his beloved daughter.