Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall - Kauderer, Herb
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Award-winning poet Herb Kauderer has been visiting the Dreamers Mall in The Tank, a vast virtual world, for thirty-five years. Now those countless "shopping trips" have been gathered into one volume, Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall, inviting readers to roam its ever-shifting corridors with shops for Halloween avatars, dragons, jewelry made from life itself, a bookstore featuring a virtual Joseph Conrad, and much more. Kauderer crafts a mosaic of lyrical stories with poems shimmering with humor, melancholy, and wonder. From an iron worker forging digital masterpieces "about the divide…mehr

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Award-winning poet Herb Kauderer has been visiting the Dreamers Mall in The Tank, a vast virtual world, for thirty-five years. Now those countless "shopping trips" have been gathered into one volume, Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall, inviting readers to roam its ever-shifting corridors with shops for Halloween avatars, dragons, jewelry made from life itself, a bookstore featuring a virtual Joseph Conrad, and much more. Kauderer crafts a mosaic of lyrical stories with poems shimmering with humor, melancholy, and wonder. From an iron worker forging digital masterpieces "about the divide between the physical and the ethereal" to a brewmaster blending illusion and reality, these poems explore the deep longings culturally encoded in our shared virtual dreams. So take forty winks, and step inside the mall.
Autorenporträt
HERB KAUDERER is a retired factory worker/truck driver who grew up to become a tenured professor of English at Hilbert College. His doctoral dissertation and both his master's theses were related to speculative writing. He also has soft science degrees including psychology and political science. He is a fifth generation Buffalonian who currently lives near the north-east corner of Lake Erie (just a little south of Buffalo, NY) and often walks the waterfront. A favorite hobby is getting physicists drunk, so he can understand them. Herb has written film, drama, non-fiction, and short fiction, but is most noted for his poetry. He has had over 2,500 poems accepted, many of them gathered into twenty-three books and chapbooks with more on the way. His writing has won the Critters Readers' Award (2021), the Asimov's Readers' Award (2017), the Ewaipanoma Sonnet Contest (2008), the WorldCon Poetry Slam (1998). and the Sycamore Award (1992), and has received third place for the Elgin Award (2020) and Dwarf Stars Award (2021). He has received many other kind accolades, including nominations for the Rhysling Award and the Pushcart Prize as well as honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (1996). He is a minor assistant editor at Amazing Stories Magazine, co-edits SpecPo Reviews, and was the poetry editor of Triangulations: Habitats (2021), and Wheeling, Yet Not Free (2024). Herb has four children including writer/novelist Shannon Yseult. The main theme of his writing is "society lies," and he studies consciousness trying to find borders of lies of individuals and lies of groups. Questions of what is real such as those encountered in a virtual reality are a subset of his studies of fabrications. He considers lies a social lubricant that allows humans to live in large population centers, and also sand in the gears of society breaking down the heights of human accomplishment. He finds that conflict in the levels of untruths to be the stuff of myth and fable, and therefore at the core of storytelling.