ANC005: Antarctica is for Sleepers by Elizabeth Wylder

60 pages, handmade and numbered
ANC05 is out of print.
​2010

Elizabeth Wylder’s dynamic poetry collection is an “impermanent press” of poses, from the midnight-boozed poet to the woman-child still hiding at the dinner table. Here Wylder creates timeless images from the American expanse and wraps them in modern narratives best read breathlessly. We also have here a romantic international line-up of riff raff, from Baghdad body contractors to a Colombian drug lord whose waistline is expanding inversely to his fortune. 

In a word (or many) what we have here is pop culture, personal experience, and wry observation of everyday life mixed into a frothy, rhythmic, and accessible concoction. Antarctica is for sleepers, but Antarctica is for Sleepers is for doe-eyed, fleet-footed day-dreamers.

Elizabeth Wylder

Elizabeth Wylder took the scenic route to Chicago, stopping along the way to peddle foam rocks at Walt Disney World, teach a college course on Clint Eastwood movies, and deliver milkshakes. Currently, she teaches at Triton College and the City Colleges of Chicago, and edits Pure Francis. Her poetry, short fiction, and audio have appeared in The Great American Poetry Show, Natural Bridge, SLAB, The 2River View, California Quarterly, and elsewhere. Superpower: Yawning with her mouth closed.