B.W. Powe’s Mysteria is an exquisite volume exploring the beautiful and irresolvable
contradictions that illuminate and darken life, reproduced to show pen and ink process and print text firmness. He invites us to feel our hurt earth, the collision and soft meetings of Spain and Canada, alongside such pairings as community and solitude, presence and absence.

 Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, Ph.D.
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We are riding a whirlwind roused by the devil himself. Damnation is our new daily bread. I think B.W.P. is wiser, retreating into those deeper, silent recesses he describes so vividly and with such emotional force in Mysteria.

–William Kuhns, Media Analyst, Archivist, Author, Novelist,
Biographer, Cultural Historian

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Mysteria by BW Powe, is an excellent work of art and a must-read. The handwritten font of the pages echo the motif of wind and waves that runs throughout the work. The curling letters and sharp lines embody the meaning of the words in the form of the font and there is something deeply soothing about that. It brings the reader immediately somewhere more personal than a mechanized font would. To read and engage with Mysteria is to engage with an interdisciplinary and deeply personal work of poetry, prose, and art – that spans Cordoba and rests in many ways in Toronto. However, what stands out most and what I come back to is the form – the handwriting which is Powe’s own, the attention to the pages and the unique structure makes Mysteria more than a poetry collection or an artists’ book but a piece of art in and of itself.