A Vivid Dreaming

Author: Mal Virich

Publisher: Bottlecap Press (2024)

In 21 poems of varying form and length, a vivid dreaming explores sleep and meta-poetry, in a melatonin-fueled journey through the unconscious. Such questions as: What does it mean to fall asleep? Who are you in your dreams? Are we, as a collective, worthy of love? are not so much thoroughly answered as pondered, deeply and abstractly.

At times existential and at other times humorous, a vivid dreaming builds on the poetic tradition of extremely conventional writers like Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg of the Netflix original series Bojack Horseman. Whether “filthy” or “falling asleep,” poetry readers might find something to describe their state of being, somewhere between the abyss and the sunrise.