The ONEIRONAUT Ø1 (2024)
$20.00
Description
SHERI-D WILSON, aka the Mama of Dada, is an appointee to the Order of Canada, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Calgary, and recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Kwantlen University. She is a prolific poet of 14 books, 4 short films and 3 word & music albums.
The ONEIRONAUT ∅1, is the first book in a 600-page one-story trilogy of genre-bending speculative poetry. This epic narrative delves into the world of lucid dreams, dream healing, mythological & metaphysical realms, as well as ancient knowledge, and scientific truth.
At times Wilson’s opus is hilarious, at others frightening, The ONEIRONAUT ∅1 seems destined to become a cult classic, already being celebrated by critics for its singular style and sharp wit.
In this character driven page-turner, Rain, a brilliant bespeckled outcast scientist, finds herself drawn from a life of oppression into the liberating world of illusion. Called by the Willows, the keepers of dreams, she is chosen to lead the rebellion against The Bureau, a dystopian, enveloping regime that controls society by forcing its citizens to take a MetaNoia pill which prevents them from dreaming.
Follow Rain as she leads this uprising against the chilling totalitarian ideations of the Department of Dreams—where bureaucrats systematically search out, torture and murder the few dreamers that remain. On this journey, Rain unlocks the profound magic accessible through extreme lucid dream, which The Bureau has ruthlessly sought to eliminate from humankind.
If Rain and the Willows fail, the secret order of The Oneironauts will be lost and with it the ability to dream, to heal and to manifest our possibilities through radical imaginings.
The ONEIRONAUT trilogy is published by Write Bloody North and edited by Micheline Maylor.
"The Oneironaut rolls along with the fragmented, manic energy of a light show-cum-spoken word performance, full of exotic textual arrangements and capitalized sound effects. And it's all put to great use..." - Alex Good, Toronto Star, April 17
"It uses a dystopian backdrop to examine urgent issues that should resonate with today’s readers, offering a cautionary tale about surveillance and extremism." - Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald, May 16
"We are drawn into a world with an unnavigable distance between where we are and where we want to be. Yet, with Wilson’s skillful guidance, the narrative wormhole proves easy to chart." - Mary Vlooswyk, Freefall Magazine, August 19
