Antarctica is for Sleepers by Elizabeth Wylder
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.
60 pages, handmade and numbered • 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.
60 pages, handmade and numbered • 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.
60 pages, handmade and numbered • 2010
Spencer Dew was heading to California by Greyhound in 1998 when he decided to walk out of the bus station and stay in Chicago. His art and book reviews have appeared in decomP, Rain Taxi, Newcity, and the late Chicago Artists’ News; his cultural criticism in Religion Dispatches and Sightings; and his stories in THE2NDHAND and Thieves Jargon. Books: Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2008) and Learning for Revolution: the Work of Kathy Acker (San Diego State University Press, 2010)