Navigating the Quartz Forest

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Each dreamlike lyric in Biman Roy's Navigating the Quartz Forest is charmingly paired with a small handwritten note hastily jotted down on blue-lined notebook paper-artifacts from his daughter's 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 poet's expansive imagination. In Navigating the Quartz Forest Roy's whimsical poems become a sparkling tribute from a father to his beloved daughter.</span></p>