The book includes more than 80 poems from ancient to modern poets and is published by the Columbia University Press. The prints are from some of the 40 artists invited to contribute to the fourth international portfolio project organized by faculty member Dean Dass who heads the U.Va. Each artist was asked to use the mythological tale of the labyrinth for design inspiration. They want you supine on the rag rug watching the light lighten from black to grey. They want you to absorb it in porefuls.
Insomnia is dull now, even common.
What you have is too much time. Enough to visualize day, which is sad and false as carnivals are, all pinwheels and peanut brittle and beholden to the idea of brightness as paradise. In this spectacle, you'll lug your own tired body, its heft of bone and muscle sagging uncompliantly, invoking the ground. Her writing has appeared in a number of national journals and magazines. She works for DSD Laboratories as a Web developer and graphic designer.