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Unsleeping
poems
By Burkard, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-1-88933-053-2
- Publisher
- Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2001
In Burkard's intensely psychological poetry, "unsleeping" refers to a dreamy state of semi-consciousness when one is "not quite sleeping yet." The lines take the form of conundrums or metaphysical transcriptions that at times sound like epigrams from Heidegger or Wittgenstein: "Things become is" or "I tell you he is talking/ Is not." To rea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
