In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams. html. com/arvio/home. saraharvio. www.
For many years a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland, she has also taught poetry at Princeton.
She has won a number of awards and honors, including the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Guggenheim and Bogliasco Fellowships.
About the Author: SARAH Arvio is the author of two previous books of poetry, Visits from the Seventh and Sono.
An utterly original work of art and a groundbreaking portrayal of the power of Dream interpretation to resolve psychic distress, this stunning book illumines the poetic logic of the dreaming mind; it also shows us, with surpassing poignancy, how tender and fragile is the mind of an adolescent girl.
Arvio\'s explorations lead her back to her younger self--and to a life-changing understanding that will fascinate readers.
The Notes, also exquisitely readable, unfold the meaning of the dreams--as told to her analyst--and recount the enlightening and sometimes harrowing process of unlocking memories, starting with the diaries she burned to make herself forget.
The result is a riveting sequence of Dream poems, followed by "Notes." The poems, in the form of irregular sonnets, describe her dreamworld: a realm of beauty and terror emblazoned with recurring colors and images--gold, blood red, robin\'s-egg blue, snakes, swarms of razors, suitcases, playing cards, a catwalk.
As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoAnalysis to save herself.
In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams
