Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep
Autor Sandra Huberen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2015
Even though we spend a third of our lives asleep, the behaviour remains largely a mystery. Sandra Huber’s first book, Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep, assumes that any attempt to solve this mystery requires new modes of experimentation. What happens when the line of a Berger’s wave (an electroencephalography recording of brainwaves in sleep) turns into a line of poetry, an act of focused consciousness?
The earliest readings of the sleeping brain, captured by EEGs in the 1930s, revealed that sleep is as active and lively as its daytime counterpart, not simply a passive state that naturally ensues when wakefulness ceases. Sleep not only assimilates the day that’s passed, but also looks forward, assembling what’s to come. To engage this concept, Huber sculpts a long poem onto the neural oscillations of sleep, in order to explore what is beneath them both: the conscious organism, the writer, and the written. In the field of the poem, where sleep is traditionally a metaphor for death, the idea that to be awake is to be alive is put to the test in a new kind of writing that invites a new kind of being.
Prefaced by a discussion on poetry, the science of sleep, and those who have sought a language of consciousness – from Hans Berger to Gertrude Stein – Assembling the Morrow proposes that entering the mystery of sleep requires a radical reframing of our biases on what it means to be conscious.
The earliest readings of the sleeping brain, captured by EEGs in the 1930s, revealed that sleep is as active and lively as its daytime counterpart, not simply a passive state that naturally ensues when wakefulness ceases. Sleep not only assimilates the day that’s passed, but also looks forward, assembling what’s to come. To engage this concept, Huber sculpts a long poem onto the neural oscillations of sleep, in order to explore what is beneath them both: the conscious organism, the writer, and the written. In the field of the poem, where sleep is traditionally a metaphor for death, the idea that to be awake is to be alive is put to the test in a new kind of writing that invites a new kind of being.
Prefaced by a discussion on poetry, the science of sleep, and those who have sought a language of consciousness – from Hans Berger to Gertrude Stein – Assembling the Morrow proposes that entering the mystery of sleep requires a radical reframing of our biases on what it means to be conscious.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780889229105
ISBN-10: 0889229104
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 137 x 226 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Talon Books
ISBN-10: 0889229104
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 137 x 226 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Talon Books
Notă biografică
Sandra Huber is a Swiss-Canadian writer of poetry and fiction. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, and has published in the Milieu Anthology of Canadian Women Writers, Danforth Review, Ditch, Alice Blue Review, E-Ratio, and Dusie, among others. She received a Best of the Web award from Dzanc Books and a CIG award from Artists-in-Labs, where she was placed for nine months in the Tafti / Franken sleep laboratories at the Centre for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne. Sandra is founder of the online literary journal Dear Sir, and edits at Hatje Cantz Verlag in Berlin.
Descriere
Sleep is a legible phenomenon of recorded brain waves – groups of neurons firing in a visible choir.