Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall

<p>Award-winning poet Herb Kauderer has been visiting the Dreamers Mall in The Tank a vast virtual world for thirty-five years. Now those shopping trips old and new have been gathered into one volume <em>Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall</em> inviting readers to roam its ever-shifting corridors with shops for Halloween avatars dragons jewelry made from life itself a bookstore featuring a virtual Joseph Conrad and much more.</p><p></p><p>Kauderer crafts a mosaic of lyrical stories with poems shimmering with humor melancholy and wonder. From an iron worker forging digital masterpieces about the divide between the physical and the ethereal to a brewmaster blending illusion and reality these poems explore the deep longings culturally encoded in our shared virtual dreams.</p><p></p><p>So take forty winks and step inside the mall.</p>