"This is the necromantic power of love, revealed to us at last by Dead Hermes.
Whispers of wet forests, conspiracies of witches and indigenous elders, the erotic lyric of the troubadours,.
And by raising the ghosts of the past we are given visions of the future..." In the nine missives which comprise The Dead Hermes Epistolary , trickster poet Slippery Elm leads the reader away from the pale world of dying meaning into the ever-living dream world of our forgotten past. "This is the necromantic power of love, revealed to us at last by Dead Hermes