Dormilona

dormilona is a bilingual poetry collection about dream states, distance and the rituals of sleep. Its language is fluid, mirroring how elusive time and memory can be, and the poems center on matrilineal consciousness and shifting ideas of home.

The speaker's dreams are filled with the ancient forests around Mount Roraima and the bright pink sands of Playa Colorada. Within these landscapes she finds harmony with brain wave patterns taken from sleep studies. In Venezuelan Spanish, dormilona means both nightgown and sleepyhead, and the title points to the web the book builds, a neural network that ties sleep to matrilineal memory, time and geography.