LETTERS TO KURT

A poetic elegy for Kurt Cobain from the man who created the band Hole with Cobain's wife Courtney Love.

Letters to Kurt is an anguished, angry, and tender meditation on the octane and ether of rock and roll and its many moons: sex, drugs, suicide, fame, and rage. It's part Dream Songs, part Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, and the Clash. Rants, reflections, and gunshot fill these fifty-two prose poems. They are raw, funny, sad, and searching. This will make a beautiful book for anyone who loved Nirvana and Hole and the time and place when their music changed everything. Ultimately, it's an elegy for Kurt and the "suicide idols" who tragically fail to find salvation in their amazing music.

Eric Erlandson is a musician best known as the cofounder, songwriter, and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole. With Hole, he toured extensively throughout the world, most notably in support of the band's universally praised second album, LIVE THROUGH THIS. Erlandson lives in Los Angeles.