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Emily Winfield MartinEmily Winfield Martin 9780375869952

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Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists

by Angela Rawlings

ISBN13: 9781552451694
ISBN10: 1552451690
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Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking minds prose transforms into the sleepers 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.

Reading the act of sleep through pupae and moths seems incongruous, but from this unlikely premise comes a darkly erotic text that takes cues from the scientific fascination of Christopher Dewdney, the linguistic experimentation of Gertrude Stein and the aural environments of Björk to explore science, sexuality and language in equal parts.

Wide slumber for lepidopterists contains luminous illustrations by artist and bookmaker Matt Ceolin, who has managed to capture the spirit of the poems with his beautiful and disturbing treated photographs of butterflies, moths and dessication.

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: leftnwrite08, October 15, 2006 (view all comments by leftnwrite08)
The book is a book of auditory bliss; as you read you find yourself engaging in the sounds of the words, along with the words themselves. Rawlings' work flourishes from its creative engagement of one's sense of sound; you haven't read the book until you read it and hear it at once. Even in the reading of it, I felt drawn to the look and sound of the words; it forced me to recognize the beauty of a word, both of its own merit (even the word "lepidopterist" has a beautiful look to it) and with the understanding of its meaning, which came secondary to the initial reading.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9781552451694
Author:: Rawlings, Angela
Publisher:: Coach House
Illustrator:: Ceolin, Matt
Author:: Ceolin, Matt
Author:: Rawlings, A.
Subject:: Canadian
Subject:: General Poetry
Subject:: Anthologies-Miscellaneous International Poetry
Edition Description:: 1
Publication Date:: 20020431
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Language:: English
Illustrations:: YES
Pages:: 88
Dimensions:: 8 x 5 in

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