WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS It rolls up like a

It rolls up like a capsule for storage in its box: memory as receipt

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

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) was an artist

part of the iconic M Series featured in MoMA’s permanent collection

WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS It rolls up like aPoetry. 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