Postal Séance: A Scientific Investigation Into the Possibility of a Postlife Postal Existence

by Henrik Drescher

If you can write letters to Santa Claus c/o the North Pole, you ought to be able to write a letter to Jack Kerouac or Albert Einstein. As it turns out, you can. People have been trying to communicate with the dead for aeons, but it took renowned author and illustrator Henrik Drescher to break through the eternal barrier. Postal Seance is the result of his bizarre and ambitious experiment, in which the afterlife meets the epistolary impulse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811840271
• ISBN13: 9780811840279
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

My new best friend

This book is delightful. It makes me so happy, i carry it around with me and show it to all my friends and i sleep with it next to my bed. Drescher's take on the universe of life and death is refreshingly magical, upbeat, and FUN. The art is gorgeous; the text, tho minimal, is a kick in the pants to read; the layout and construction of the book are inspiring. I recommend it to anyone who thinks about the four-way-stop intersection of life/death/frivolity/art, who is interested in mail art or any art, or anyone who just loves a good solid thoughtful laugh.

Droll Art Book Communicates With the WorlD BeyonD

Droll, eminently droll this arty book of fartsy/phantastic postcards which illustrator Henrik Descher had collaborators from around the Globe send via post to the DEAD, is fun, funny, semi-post-modern in a spiritual sense. As a fan of postcards not to mention stuff that gets sent via post card, this is to be recommended, terrific also is the end-flap fold-out map of Postal Routes into the Afterlife! Read after kafka's PENAL COLONY and THE JUDGEMENT, and before reading MAGIC EYES by Wendy Ewald or THE DRIFTLESS ZONE by Rick Harsch, go to it. 23 cents domestic, 46 cents into the other world.

An odd, fun visually embellished collection evolves

Presented in the visual postcard style of Griffin And Sabine, Postal Seance: A Scientific Investigation Into The Possibility Of A Postlife Postal Existence is a fun hypothesis where author/illustrator Henrik Drescher wonders about the ability of inhabitants of the afterworld to receive letters using earthly mailboxes as portals. His experiment here: to address correspondence to the dead: his intention, to chronicle the efforts to contact made by James Joyce, Bucky Fuller, and others. An odd, fun visually embellished collection evolves.