The Sleeptalker Poems / Schaeffer Lemalu

Praise

Lemalu’s poems fracture and fragment, forcing both our reading eye and our listening ear into a seemingly casual mimetic relationship. Yet, within the everydayness of his poetics, these lines are minimal mini-masterpieces: portals into a sensitive and intellectual realm that is at once both invisible and utterly life-giving.
—Lynley Edmeades

Folded now together like a pair of wings (and they are wings), the poems of SLEEPTALKER and SLEEPTALKER
2 are the emblems of a man who has been visited by messengers, each of whom carries the news of every living thing’s unique eternity. And after these visitations, Lemalu saunters a while across our common world, revising it ever so gently with a new lustre and new urgency.
—Donald Revell