It's a love story, with the usual dashing figures and old habits of spelling, repetition and listing.

"In a certain way, the title tells you everything, the simplicity of S. Barber's FLOWER, THE BOY, THE LIBRARIAN is somewhat misleading in terms of its content or how the hidden poetry of those contents are discovered. The work hints at a vast space which takes the form of these three characters (the flower, the boy and the librarian) but, at the same time seems not to be fixed on these things, but to represent something else, something mysteriously luminous." - Gregg Biermann