With these texts you have found a stricter, more working language, yes: brilliant. And the graphic solution, in opposition to the excerpts, is outstanding. Concept, but with shadows of variance in the invariance and intertext. A much more serious book, its themes of death drowning – love, inner city milieu, history, procreation )I( and the value of beauty, but most of all – erotica. The love for someone, a lost bead, a remembrance. With a ‘dark’ under-note, as if language – seeing love, memory, a child – was caught inside itself, unable to communicate further, closing in. The idea of a narrative in this conflict-towards-reading.
— Freke Räihä, Literary Critic / Literary Curator at Tidningen Kulturen (Umeå, Sweden) | Review of Michael D. Main’s “History Of Love” |
