WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS Regardless of their origin

Regardless of their origin

It rolls up like a capsule for storage in its box: memory as receipt

"The /spontaneous productions of the earth get rarer

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WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS Regardless of their originPoetry. Coach House Books, 2002. Paperback, 88 pages. 7. 1" x 5. 04" From the press: Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? 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