Poetry. "In David Gruber's SLEEPERS' REPUBLIC nature is dreaming, and we are its dreams. Time is slowed down or speeded up: 'suddenly, the sun / gives way to stars.' And: 'What we knew moves sudden / without warning / throwing us to the ground / an emptiness in the sea / The air above us filled with fruit.' It may be that love 'offers the opposite of a kiss,' yet Gruber's upended universe is nonetheless an exhilarating medium in which the reader can both swim and breathe"—John Ashbery.
Author City: RHINEBECK, NY USA
David Gruber is a graduate of Bard College, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Denver. He holds a PhD in English and has taught at the United States Military Academy and Bard College.
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