From Dante to the New Jersey suburbs, from Darwin to Bob Dylan to Barbie dolls, The Book of Sleep takes in the panoramic and the personal, the fantastic and mundane. Many of the poems explore the inner landscape of birth and new motherhood. From this liminal, dreamlike space, they open out onto vistas of history, travel, science and politics.
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Eleanor Stanford’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and other journals. She lives in Philadelphia. This is her first book.
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The Book of Sleep,
By Gigi B (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This stunning debut collection features delicately written, tensile poems about contemporary life. Feeding the baby in time of war, braiding the hair of someone from another culture, reacting to the love of spouse and children are just some of the topics in this collection. Not an extraneous word, not a false note or misstep. I highly recommend this book; discover a major new talent.
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The poems in this book are moving and lovely. After reading many of them, one has the sense of having awoken from the kind of dream that one will always remember. The poems capture the way one is present in many moments of one's life, both past and present, simultaneously. This collection is a very strong debut, and I look forward to reading more of this writer's work.
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A beautiful book,
By Danny S. (Phila, PA) - See all my reviews
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Eleanor Stanford's poems are lyrical, deeply affecting, and thought-provoking. With each poem, I was entranced, her words painting images in my mind and heart. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves poetry and even to someone who thought they didn't.
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