Light Sleeper: Poems

Light Sleeper is a new collection of poems from Coleman Stevenson author of Breakfast The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609 The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a book of essays accompanying the card game Metaphysik.Existing somewhere between a grimoire and a naturalists most intimate diary Light Sleeper is a profound and scintillating interior journey from a singular alchemical mind. Prone to lists fragments scraps of memory the poems in this collection become a kind of inventory a still-life of a curio cabinet. They move seamlessly between the vast and the intimate limning the correspondences between cosmic and domestic... This book is utterly electric in its connections in its breadth and intimacy gut-wrenching and full of secrets. It unfurls with a naturalists precision.Stephanie Adams-Santos author of Swarm Queens CrownColeman Stevensons Light Sleeper describes a philosophy of noticing playing with time space and scale. Stevensons language is creaturely full of plant blood and planetary rotation... She takes the world apart extracting its essence melting and recombining turning the stones of her ideas over and over refining the language of her experience. Light Sleeper lingered with me like a circle of longed-for solitude.Michelle Ruiz Keil author of All of Us With WingsIts no simple feat to create a collection of poems that manages to be private and inviting dark as it is light intimate and grand but Stevenson deftly delivers an experience that leaves us hungry for more. Sarah Bartlett author of Sometimes We Walk With Our Nails Out