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Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
Rawlings, Angela. Illus: Ceolin, Matt
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Description for Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
Paperback. Features a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry. This collection of poems tracks the stages of sleep and pairs them with the life cycle of Lepidopterae. Illustrator(s): Ceolin, Matt. Num Pages: 88 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 124 x 180 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148.
Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry. Each poem unfolds with precision, tracking the stages of sleep and pairing them with the life cycle of Lepidopterae. Insomnia is mirrored in the birth of the egg, narcolepsy in larval hatching. And when the caterpillar starts its final moult, dreams begin, weaving around us as tightly as a cocoon until we are somnambulant, a chrysalis ready to emerge as a moth. ... Read more
Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry. Each poem unfolds with precision, tracking the stages of sleep and pairing them with the life cycle of Lepidopterae. Insomnia is mirrored in the birth of the egg, narcolepsy in larval hatching. And when the caterpillar starts its final moult, dreams begin, weaving around us as tightly as a cocoon until we are somnambulant, a chrysalis ready to emerge as a moth. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552451694
SKU
V9781552451694
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About Rawlings, Angela. Illus: Ceolin, Matt
a.rawlings is a poet, editor and multidisciplinary artist. In 2001, she received the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing upon graduating from York University. Since then, she has worked with many literary organizations; highlights include co-founding The Lexiconjury Reading Series and developing creative-writing workshops for youth. She recently co-edited Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (The Mercury Press). angela spent ... Read more
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