Sleeper, Waking / Late Night Reveries at Eighty by Peter Weltner

Sleeper, Waking / Late Night Reveries at Eighty by Peter Weltner

Sleeper, Waking is a book of late night reveries in old age. A reverie is a half-conscious, half dream-like state in which all the stuff of the real world is no less real but loosed from the ties of time, freeing childhood woods, rivers, lakes, faces one has known, lives one has shared, cities visited or lived in, books read, music heard, past passions and lost lovers, even old fears and dreads to return: all of a life mingling in one moment. It is a kind of suspended place in-between the present world and some other before or after it, between now and then. It is, as one dwells in it, to discover how at eighty, as you lie half-awake at night, the past is relived for you or the world you knew dreamed back to sleep.

Weltner, Peter: - Peter Weltner taught English Renaissance poetry and prose and modern and contemporary British, Irish, and American fiction and poetry at San Francisco State for thirty-seven years. He has published twenty books or chapbooks of fiction or poetry including most recently The Return of What's Been Lost, The Light of the Sun Become Sea, and You Wait For Me Where Mountain Peaks Are White As Your Hair. He lives with his husband in San Francisco by the Pacific.

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ISBN 13	9798218049614
ISBN 10	8218049614
Title	Sleeper, Waking / Late Night Reveries at Eighty
Author	Peter Weltner
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Marrowstone Press
Year published	2022-08-25
Number of pages	104
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