The Sky Contains the Plans

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By Matthew Rohrer

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The Sky Contains the Plans is Matthew Rohrer's latest poetry collection that delves into the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep, known as hypnagogia. Rather than dream-poems, these pieces capture the faint messages of dreams as they emerge into waking life, blending the mundane with the surreal to create a fresh, primordial reality.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry that explores consciousness, dream imagery, and the intersections of the ordinary and surreal. Fans of meditative and evocative verse will find this collection rewarding.

Poems that speak the literal language of dreams.

Description

Matthew Rohrer's latest collection explores the space between wakefulness and sleep, that drowsy loosening of consciousness called hypnagogia. Comprised not of dream-poems but poems that strain to hear dreams' faintest messages squeaked through into waking life, The Sky Contains the Plans lays bare an imagination in which the mundane and surreal contort each other into a new kind of primordial reality.

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Critics praise Rohrer for maintaining an alluring tranquility amid clashing imagery, with Michael Brodeur of The Boston Globe highlighting a "Taoist chill" and smooth transitions between poems. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly notes the collection's root in specific, initially unrelated images that unify into meditations on everyday life's significance. Publishers Weekly commends Rohrer's ability to shift meaning and emotion within a single line. Andrew Sean Greer of PBS NewsHour counts Rohrer among poets producing life-changing work.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950268047

Publisher: Wave Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 May 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Wave Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Matthew Rohrer Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Matthew Rohrer is the author of The Others (Wave Books, 2017, winner of the Believer Book Award), Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002) and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at NYU.