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MY SLEEP PARALYSIS DEMON KISSES ME GOODNIGHT
Ariel Francisco
2025
“Something has shifted,” Ariel Francisco writes in the first poem of My Sleep Paralysis Demon Kisses Me Goodnight. In the poems that follow, we travel through various American cities, through airports and cafes, through heartbreak, anger, fear, boredom and wonder. Each poem is a map of a mind in motion, shifting in tune with the scenes of an unbearable world, a mind determined to notice and to sing. Here we encounter the poet firmly in the tradition of the troubadour, addressing former lovers, friends, other poets, strangers, and the imagination itself, always in the dialect of the heart.
OrderAbout the Author
Ariel Francisco is the author of four poetry collections, most recently “All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins” (Burrow Press, 2024), and the translator of various poetry collections from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Haiti. Born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.
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Lunette Press chapbooks are printed in a limited edition. Each book is hand-stitched and bound, providing artisanal quality. The cover features a full-color design, while the interior pages are printed with pigment ink on high-quality paper. Archival materials are used.
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