Written during the trial for a close friend\'s murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together.
Unrelenting, incisive, and tender, these poems expose beauty in the grotesque and argue that the effort to be good always outweighs the desire to succumb to what is easy..
Like Eve thrust from Eden, Brimhall is tasked with finding meaning in a world defined by its cruelty.
By plucking at the tensions between life and death, love and hate, truth and obscurity, Brimhall finds what it is that ties opposing themes together; how love and loss are married in grief.
In lullaby, lyric essay, and always with brutal sincerity, Brimhall examines how beauty and terror live right alongside each other--much like how Nod is both a fictional dreamscape and the place where Cain is exiled for murdering Abel.
In this ambitious fourth collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend\'s murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic.
Written during the trial for a close friend\'s murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together
