Description
Book SynopsisHypnagogia is the transitional stage between sleep and wakefulness?an intermediary moment of physiological limbo where hallucinations and out-of-body experiences commonly occur. Kelli Anne Noftle's poems reside in this space of ?threshold consciousness? where a voice speaks to and from the other, hovering inside a liminal world of strange admissions and abstract silences. Her book, I Was There for Your Somniloquy, was selected by Rae Armantrout for the 2010 Omnidawn Poetry Prize and is due for publication in early 2012. Armantrout describes the collection as a ?destabilizing meditation on our divided selves: our split brains and checkered evolutionary pasts.? A somniloquy, a speech one makes in one's sleep, weaves itself through the language, continually disorienting the reader and subverting subject matter, insisting there is a very precarious boundary between the conscious and unconscious, logical and illogical, dream and waking life. Other poems in this book dip below an oceanic unc
