“As he guides you, slowly, carefully, through this gothic castle of a debut, full of shadowplay and mirrorshimmer, crawling with all manner of beasts, birds, angels and demons, and echoing with so many eerie, familiar, whispering voices, Jerome Ramcharitar opens a door to a realm of aesthetics seldom visited in twenty-first century poetry. The Riddle of Three Crimson Doors takes you to a place where the urban and the fantastical, the elemental and the savant, all mesh in a language plain and direct and yet highly symbolically charged. It’s Gwendolyn MacEwen meeting you at the grocery store. It’s you running into an eighth-century bard at a rave. It’s a hugely impressive book written by a highly esteemed member of the Montreal writing community. To be read out loud and, chiefly, at night.”
—James Dunnigan, author of I Spurinna, and Windchime Concerto