The Fraud of Good Sleep by Catherine Theis

The Fraud of Good Sleep by Catherine Theis

The Fraud of Good Sleep is a book of "serious humanist" poems. Theis's poems combine a stunning, classical rigor with a passionate madness that is utterly contemporary and surprising. Charting the magic arc of a modern love story on a banjo string or through birch-white epistles left behind at a deserted campsite, these poems engage in the oblivion of snow, intoxicants, and broken-heartedness since living includes loving where "destruction be our lot." It's a place where fortunes are told: "Degenerate fruit and burned apple wood. / The impure equals the fertile plain." From prose poems and extended lyric sequences to translations and fragments, this book attempts to enfold the living past into the insane present. Or, what you might call "the wild hunt to baptize the dead."

Born in 1977 in New York, Catherine Theis grew up outside Chicago and spent her summers in Sicily with her family. She attended the University of Vermont where she received a Rubin Writer Award which allowed her to take graduate courses in creative writing at Hollins University. While in college, she studied at the University of Padua, Italy, and received a Buckham Scholarship Award to study at the University at Kent in England.

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ISBN 13	9781844718795
ISBN 10	1844718794
Title	The Fraud of Good Sleep
Author	Catherine Theis
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2011-11-15
Number of pages	80
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