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from
the Introduction by the author:
"Poetry and sleep have always
been related to me. What do we seek when we lie down to rest but
a pleasant landscape of language? inaudible rehearsals of the
auditory, invisible practice of the visual.It is possible of course
to be asleep and awake at the same time, indeed we are mostly,
examples: driving the freeway and missing the exit engrossed in
meditation, orbetter the ineluctable state of napping in my chair,
when I leave me there and go out for closer observation, hearing
even seeing everything that goes on around but not noticing my
own snores."
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Lavender earned
his BA in English from the University of Arkansas and an MFA in
Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. His
most recent books of poetry include look the universe is dreaming
(Potes and Poets 2002) and Guest Chain (Lavender Ink 1999).
He is the editor of Another South: Experimental Writing in the
South, an anthology from University of Alabama Press (2003).
His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous print magazines
including New Orleans Review, Gulf Coast Review, Skanky
Possum, and Fell Swoop, and web publications including
Exquisite Corpse, Muse Apprentice Guild, CanWeHaveOurBallBack, Moria,
Baddog, and Poets Against the War. He has published scholarship
in Poetics Today and Contemporary Literature.
He currently works as Adjunct Assistant Professor
and Director of the Low Residency Creative Writing Program at
the University of New Orleans.
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