{"product_id":"stevenson-coleman-light-slee","title":"Stevenson, Coleman: Light Sleeper","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeep Overstock, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eSeptember 15, 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLight Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a new collection of poems from Coleman Stevenson, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreakfast, The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dark Exact Tarot Guide\u003c\/em\u003e, and a book of essays accompanying the card game\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetaphysik\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Existing somewhere between a grimoire and a naturalist's most intimate diary,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLight Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a profound and scintillating interior journey from a singular, alchemical mind. Prone to lists, fragments, scraps of memory, the poems in this collection become a kind of inventory, a still-life of a curio cabinet. They move seamlessly between the vast and the intimate, limning the correspondences between cosmic and domestic... This book is utterly electric in its connections, in its breadth and intimacy, gut-wrenching and full of secrets. It unfurls with a naturalist's precision.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephanie Adams-Santos, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwarm Queen's Crown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Coleman Stevenson's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLight Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edescribes a philosophy of noticing, playing with time, space, and scale. Stevenson's language is creaturely, full of plant blood and planetary rotation... She takes the world apart, extracting its essence, melting and recombining, turning the stones of her ideas over and over, refining the language of her experience.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLight Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elingered with me like a circle of longed-for solitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichelle Ruiz Keil, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll of Us With Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's no simple feat to create a collection of poems that manages to be private and inviting, dark as it is light, intimate and grand, but Stevenson deftly delivers an experience that leaves us hungry for more.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Bartlett, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSometimes We Walk With Our Nails Out\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817277239319,"sku":"9781949127140","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/images_6c0443f9-f257-4850-9a11-3d61c09a1cae.jpg?v=1727997018","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/stevenson-coleman-light-slee","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}