Beautiful Dream

Beautiful Dream: A Poetics of Ecstasy follows on from Barry Cottrell's first book of shamanic incantations or 'utterances' - Sounding Eternity: Shamanic Incantations and the Poetics of Sonic Power, also published by drivenLine. The Preface of Sounding Eternity described the process by which these 'poems' come into existence: "While the words in this book are presented as poems, they originated as sound, vocalisations and ritual utterances, made during a shamanic state of consciousness." Underlyi