A Forest Petrifies - Diamond Feedback - Felicia Atkinson

A Forest Petrifies: Diamond Feedback by Félicia Atkinson, translated into English by Rachel Valinsky. It is a tiny paperback from Shelter Press in France (56 pages, 4-3/8 by 7 inches). The book is hard to describe so here is what the publisher says: A forest petrifies: Diamond Feedback is the first part of a larger novel in several episodes. Inspired by the Petrified Forest in Arizona and its ability to change over time from an organic to a mineral state, the story was conceived by the musician and artist Félicia Atkinson over the past five years, while its on-going writing has been the starting point of many of Atkinson’s music lyrics and recent records and exhibitions. A part of the book takes place in the middle of the desert in an indistinct future. Two men are having a discussion by a fire in a modernist house. The music they are listening to is not emitted by a device but by themselves, it’s a new kind of technology. They look at the embers of the fire and it reminds them of a pa