Don't Go Back to Sleep
Published on 1. October 2014
80 pages
978-0-9915454-2-1 (ISBN)
Description
Don't Go Back To Sleep answers the Sufi call to wake up to this life in the here and now where ecstasy serves its summons, inviting us to break out of the mundane quotidian. Timothy Liu winds the clock back to the Nanking Massacre in 1937, then traces its consequences on his family of origin, his mother's mental illness, his father's religious fundamentalism, and Liu's obsessive search for love. As trauma begets trauma the poems slowly accrete, and Liu takes on a legacy of poetic witness where carnal violence ultimately turns to spiritual joy.
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Don't Go Back To Sleep
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10/2014
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Dedication
- A Requiem for the Homeless Spirits
- Building Trust
- The Decision
- I Know My Husband's Body
- The Assignation
- Romance
- Dream Fragment on the Eve of My Beloved's Wedding
- Without You
- The Ring
- I Know Your Mouth Better
- A Lover Doesn't Have To
- If Everything I Said
- Romance
- The Gift
- A Bed of Ash
- The Gift
- Romance
- The Crisis
- Romance
- The Lovers
- First Memory
- Classical Music
- Another Anxiety Attack
- The Silence
- Deep Song
- Anonymous
- Here
- Unsleeping, 3:25 A.M.
- Romance
- Without Asking
- Unsleeping, 4:01 A.M.
- The Crushing Din
- The Windows
- All Trains Are Going Local
- Easy Does It
- This Too Shall Pass
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
- The Assignation
- The Betrothal
- Romance
- Summertime
- The Bridegroom
- Unsleeping, 5:18 A.M.
- Sine Qua Non
- The Lovers
- Unsleeping, 5:36 A.M.
- The Remains
