Waking Dreams by Donna Potts (English) Paperback Book

The Nile on eBay\n\n FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE\n\n \n\nWaking Dreams\nby\nDonna Potts\n\nPoems that explore the nature of dreams and the surrealistic aspects of daily experiences, considering the Anglo Saxon notion of \""dream\"" as an ideal to attain and the Viking notion of the dream as a vision in sleep.\n\nFORMAT\nPaperback\nLANGUAGE\nEnglish\nCONDITION\nBrand New\n\nPublisher Description\nThe inspiration for Waking Dreams came from a question from the poet's young son: \""is my life a dream, and someday I'll wake up and be in the real world?\"" To dream can mean to strive for a very real and reachable ideal, but dreaming also finds us at our most unknowing and vulnerable. From this starting point, these poems explore the nature of dreams amid the often surreal aspects of daily life, and the subtle interconnections between the two. \n\nDonna Potts was born in Joplin, Missouri and now lives in Manhattan, Kansas, where she teaches at Kansas State University. She received a Fulbr;