In 2001 legendary rock and roller Lou Reed immersed himself in the worldof one of his spiritual forefathers, Edgar Allan Poe, to produce one of his mostchallenging and original works: POEtry, a cycle of songs directed by the legendarytheater director Robert Wilson, in which Reed#xE2;#xAC;"s poetically streetwisesensibility merged with Poe#xE2;#xAC;"s dark chronicles of terror and despair #xE2;#xAC;#x1D; combiningPoe#xE2;#xAC;"s prose and work set to music, Reed songs inspired by Poe, andeven two classic Reed tunes whose insertion into this context gave them a newresonance. This suite of songs was released on 2003 on CD as The Raven (Reed#xE2;#xAC;"s mostrecent solo studio album to date). This spectacular volume adds a third dark, unique vision to the mix: Thebrilliant Italian cartoonist and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti ( RAW Magazine, The New Yorker), whose vivid, abstracted and enigmatic paintings perfectlycomplement Reed and Poe#xE2;#xAC;"s haunting words.