WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS Wide slumber for lepidopterists contains

Wide slumber for lepidopterists contains luminous illustrations by artist and bookmaker Matt Ceolin

—aracelis girmay

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) was an artist

Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems

Regardless of their origin

WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS Wide slumber for lepidopterists containsPoetry. Coach House Books, 2002. Paperback, 88 pages. 7. 1" x 5. 04" From the press: Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry. Each poem unfolds with precision, tracking the stages of sleep and pairing them with the life cycle of