WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS André Breton and Philippe Soupault

André Breton and Philippe Soupault

they form a rich panorama of his ideas

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

William Greaves

WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS André Breton and Philippe SoupaultPoetry. 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