*This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.*
Matthew Rohrer's latest collection explores the space between wakefulness and sleep, that drowsy loosening of consciousness called hypnagogia. Comprised not of dream-poems but poems that strain to hear dreams' faintest messages squeaked through into waking life, “The Sky Contains the Plans” lays bare an imagination in which the mundane and surreal contort each other into a new kind of primordial reality.
