Aqueous Red by Kit Ingram Patrick Dubost Gate of Lilacsis the unique

Gate of Lilacsis the unique product of James's love and engagement with Proust's eternal masterpiece

The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag

intensely honest and hopeful

I wrote a collection stuffed with all the characters and stories that interest me and that I hope will be of interest to others

and described by John Kinsella as a ‘masterpiece’

Aqueous Red by Kit Ingram Patrick Dubost Gate of Lilacsis the uniqueAqueous Red explores the deep shadows of love. In Kit Ingram's spellbinding poetic exorcism of violence, intimacy, and dreams, illicit liaisons surface in fragments of interconnected lives. A boy watches his father pour scalding water onto his brothers hands, and later rescues a doll, promising to protect it with a kiss. A priest blesses a prostitute with holy water while a son drowns in a painful memory. In the sequence Red, a married man falls in