"This, you are about to lend your will to, is a poem transformed by "courageous spiritual falsetto" just as Waldman's Fez is a city transformed by dream. Alongside her son, musician Ambrose Bye, Waldman's careful yet manic, motherly yet shamanic, strides revel in the surround and intimacy of ancient Moroccan cities, Fez, Larache and Chefchaouen. Through a mazing riff of place, dream, song, photograph and poem, Waldman investigates the duty and imprint of motherhood as a genetic transference, a steered vagabond, of creative spirit. What of song has the poet mother passed to her musician son? What of his dreams gyre from her lyrical vibrations, and what is left to leave for him, for his creations, but a spinning, labyrinthine language, an inherited city of ritual and impulse? Morocco drifts between mother and son, and the Dream Book is a composition that traces how two traverse and compose an experience, a dream manifesting between them, in rhythm and word. This journey has left Waldman in pursuit of a "mother's love of son," he who in the reverie of their song calls out, "Mom, slow down." And who but her son could ask this of our bold and vital Anne Waldman-" ⎯ Serena Chopra