The Narco Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence Ida Vitale charting the trials and adventures

charting the trials and adventures of the Yun clan

Now and then she reminds me of Keats

he is a messenger from the underworld whose narrative leads us through the mist

and How To Burn (1995)

The Narco Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence Ida Vitale charting the trials and adventuresWritten according to its own dictum, language is the universal inebriant, these epistolary essays, personal narratives, meditations on avant garde writers, and unorthodox forays into the narco imaginarythe habits and conventions surrounding literary and cultural representations of drug useattend to the residue of transient impressions that remain, long after the delirium of creative activity subsides.