WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS part of the iconic M

part of the iconic M Series featured in MoMA’s permanent collection

André Breton and Philippe Soupault

William Greaves

"The /spontaneous productions of the earth get rarer

Wide slumber for lepidopterists contains luminous illustrations by artist and bookmaker Matt Ceolin

WIDE SLUMBER FOR LEPIDOPTERISTS part of the iconic MPoetry. 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