Wakenight Emporium

In thirty-one vertiginous meditations, A.B. West reflects on the planet, the universe, dying, living, and what it means to be a being-in-time, all sorts of time: wide time, quick time, pure time. West attaches time to everything tangible, from procreation to Bach, from Martians to relativity theory, and from the fifth-dimension to the palindrome moth. And magically, this spinning text moves and clarifies. Simply. Cleanly.

Wakenight Emporium holds much for the philosopher, much for the poet, but there are also boundless riches here for the physicist, as West fascinates us with force, motion, velocity, and gravity. Her writing is the love-child of Einstein and Heidegger, obsessed with clicks of the second hand, the intricacies of now, the visible penetrations of genius. And in the midst of all, this book wants to blow the reader's head open. What remains in the half-state between dreams and waking is a universe of stars.

"Wakenight Emporium can be read in a short evening but it will dwell in the mind indefinitely."

—The Compulsive Reader

"West's book is a beautiful attempt to move the reader outside of mundane human experience."

—Review of Contemporary Fiction