title: The Book of Sleep (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
author: Eleanor Stanford
description: "Wonderfully hypnotic, The Book of Sleep is a visually powerful, spiritual journey through landscapes of human and natural worlds and of lands kept hidden from clear consciousness. The language and subject matter build into a beautiful hymnal to the light we can embrace and the darkness that indelibly surrounds us." (Susan Hahn)<br /><br />"'We all begin as immigrants,' writes Eleanor Stanford in The Book of Sleep, a collection of poetry festooned with dreams, nightmares, and otherworldliness. Her poetry is full of history 'of people, of countries, of shifting continents' and how we collide. Her generous vision, her wide scope, is all the more engaging because of her attention to both strange and wonderful details. The Book of Sleep is simply enchanting." (Denise Duhamel)<br /><br />"Eleanor Stanfords The Book of Sleep brings us a bold lyric voiceso sure of itself in debut! And why not? A newborn child and sleep (and sleeplessness)these are themes to hymn. And add a stint in the Cape Verde Islands with the Peace Corps and these lyrics have richness galorethe texture of the world experienced in its glory and plenitude, observed and celebrated by a subtle intelligence." (Gregory Orr)
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  # Sleep-Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Various
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  SLEEP-BOOK
  
  
    
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      Sleep-Book
  
  
  Some of the Poetry of Slumber
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Pat Saumell and Chuck Greif
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SLEEP-BOOK
  
  
  SOME OF THE POETRY OF SLUMBER
  
  
  COLLECTED BY
  
  
  LEOLYN LOUISE EVERETT
  
  
  NEW YORK
  
  
  THE WATKINS COMPANY
  
  
  1910
  
  
  Three hundred and twenty copies of this book have been printed on
  
  
  hand-made Van Gelder paper, for 