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Dream State: A Commonplace Book
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9781961884267
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 CHANGES BOOK PRIZE JUDGED BY LOUISE GLÜCK & EILEEN MYLES
The poems of Dream State arise from the poet's experience living and working in Iraq, not as a soldier or journalist, but as a writer, translator, teacher, and preservationist of Kurdish culture. In a stunning act of cogenerative imagination, Levinson-LaBrosse's poetic voice emerges alongside the voices of others with whom she has collaborated. Together with her poems, these translated memories, testimonies and stories form an interdependent environment bridging time and perception.
As a book, Dream State resists categorization. And yet it is fundamentally accessible in its humanity. People come together in understanding, and break apart just as quickly. Fictions shatter and endure, while national imaginations always seem to be at risk. And everywhere the poet turns, she learns that peace is never self-sustaining. True peace is an enduring act of courage, and one that must be lived everyday.
As the 2003 Iraq invasion reached its twentieth anniversary (2023) and the Islamic State's attempted genocide in Shingal reaches its tenth (2024), Dream State attempts to sit with other people's experiences, rather than extract details to exploit them; amplifies the work around the poet, rather than supplant it; and trusts that listening to individual perspectives will lead to common understanding.
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