"In Valerie Fox's Insomniatic waking life and dream life don't blur; instead, they seamlessly merge to create a sharp-eyed, plain-spoken poetics of 3:28 a.m. Here "the old shadow shows up like an old song cycle" and "the crow's eye swam with the wind." Her intimate and witty poems remind us of the beauty of leaps and elision. You'll want to stay up for this wise collection." -- Joanna Fuhrman (The Year of Yellow Butterflies, Pageant, Moraine)"Are you sleepy? Yawning? Brush your teeth yet? Good. Kiss everyone goodnight, hit the lights, tuck yourself in and wake the hell up. There will be no dreaming, no "dramming," no dozing on these rare and imaginative poems as they tilt and pursue. Because in these pages, that's exactly what Valerie Fox is--UP. And very much. Up to "sleepy-headed awake people" who relish in insights like "[t]he vanishing point is the point / you notice first." Beautiful and bizarre, Fox keeps her readers wide, bright, amused and human. Just ask Papa Seahorse." -- Paul Siegell (Jambandbootleg, Wild Life Rifle Fire, Poemergency Room)"Insomniatic throws the reader into a world of interruptions and disjunctions, strange dreams and experiences. Who is having the experience? Who are we when we dream? Where is the line between dreaming and waking? ("Are these insomniacs really not sleeping?" Fox asks. "We query like that.") The cast of characters and the range of references in this wonderful book: animal, human, and historical/fictional/mythical - wrap around the reader, a sort of blanket of multi-voiced utterances that make the experience of reading very much like a (waking) dream." -- Rose Hunter (You As Poetry, descansos, [four paths])
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