31 Letters and 13 Dreams: Poems

Each letter is written from a specific place that Hugo has made his own (a "triggering town," as he has called it elsewhere) to a friend, a fellow poet, an old love. We read over the poets shoulder as the town triggers the imagination, the friendship is re-opened, the poets selfhood is explored and illuminated. The "dreams" turn up unexpectedly (as dreams do) among the letters; their haunting images give further depth to the poets exploration. Are we overhearing them? Who is the "you" that dreams?