The Book of Sleep

The sleeping world is surreal by definition. Take a journey through the imagination from common lives to cryogenic sleep to future beings, this book mixes the mainstream, slipstream, and speculative poetry genres. Sleep and insomnia, dreams and nightmares, the mundane and the fantastical. This book contains many takes on the third of our life that is spent sleeping, or wishing we were sleeping. This collection includes two award nominees "luddite's dream" and "Team Enrollment."

Herb Kauderer is a retired factory worker/truck driver who grew up to be a tenured associate professor of English at Hilbert College with a PhD, an MFA, and a lot of other degrees. He has written film, drama, non-fiction, and short fiction, but is most noted for his poetry. His writing has won the Critters Readers' Award (2021), Asimov's Readers' Award (2017), the Ewaipanoma Sonnet Contest (2008), the WorldCon Poetry Slam (1998), the Sycamore Award (1992), and received many other accolades including honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (1996). He is assistant editor (slush reader) at Amazing Stories, co-edits "SpecPo Reviews", and was the poetry editor of Triangulations: Habitats (2021). One of his favorite hobbies is getting scientists drunk so he can understand them. More about him and his writing can be found at HerbKauderer.com

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