Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists

by A. Rawlings

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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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552451690
• ISBN13: 9781552451694
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.1"