dormilona

<p><em>dormilona</em> is a bilingual book of poetry exploring dream states distance and the rituals of sleep in Venezuelan culture. In these poems the fluidity of living in two languages reflects the elusive nature of time and memory centering on the speaker's relationship with her mother grandmother and homeland. The ancient forests around Mount Roraima and the bright pink sands of Playa Colorada inhabit her dreams and in these topographies she finds harmony with the patterns of brain waves in her sleep studies. Meaning both nightgown and sleepyhead in Venezuelan Spanish <em>dormilona</em> weaves a neural network linking sleep to language memory family geography and history. </p>