{"product_id":"cycle-of-dreams-eric-weiskott-9781685712525","title":"Cycle of Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn experimental hybrid work, \u003ci\u003eCycle of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e pairs translation and original poetry. The translations, or adaptations, are of William Langland's strange and wild fourteenth-century dream vision, \u003ci\u003e Piers Plowman, \u003c\/i\u003e a politically radical English and Latin poem written in the wake of plague and divided into a prologue and twenty \u003ci\u003epassūs\u003c\/i\u003e or steps. Eric Weiskott transposes the action from London and Worcestershire to New England and Long Island. The translations refashion and modernize \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e by disarticulating its continuous shape and rearticulating it as a collection of lyrics. The translation appears on the left and original poetry on the right in each page opening, so that the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries speak to one another as in a dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e itself in manuscript culture, \u003ci\u003eCycle of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e attracts paratexts. Images illustrate the absent presence of Langland's authorship. A series of glosses or marginal notes grounds the poems in critical theory, etymologies, lyric reminiscences, and statistics reflecting the desperation of our economic moment. An \"oneirography\" or dreamed bibliography names some of the scholarship that supports study of \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e today and some other sources for Langlandian fever dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLangland can address us today, not in the voice of a bygone author whose \"context\" must be arduously rearticulated in the laboratories of scholarly endeavor, but one whose utopian vision is in its broad outlines no less urgent in 2024 than it was in 1381, when English rebels used Langland's title figure as a rallying cry for insurrection. \u003ci\u003eCycle of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e unearths \"buried dreams \/ of a future adequate to the present tense.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Weiskott\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and teacher who lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Author most recently of the poetry chapbook \u003ci\u003eChanties\u003c\/i\u003e (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and the scholarly monograph \u003ci\u003eMeter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650\u003c\/i\u003e (Penn, 2021), Eric is also co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eYearbook of Langland Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Weiskott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1685712525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685712525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Punctum Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Eric Weiskott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465786937599,"sku":"9781685712525","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e678425c-85ef-4dbc-a648-9d465f37f9e0.jpg?v=1736347279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cycle-of-dreams-eric-weiskott-9781685712525","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}