Costica Bradatan

Binding the Ghost

Arts & Literature

“Ed Simon’s writing is bold, norm defying, and refreshingly heretical. ‘All poetry is incantation’ and ‘all prose is conjuration,’ he writes in this book. And for good measure, he adds: ‘Between those two poles lies the entirety of literature.’ With frightening intelligence, a true polymath’s breadth of knowledge, and a prophet’s pathos, Simon shows in Binding the Ghost that the genuine work of art is a gesture toward transcendence. The best literature always takes you ‘out of this world.”