Sleep is Now a Foreign Country

Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award • One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination. In the summer of 1977, standing on a roadside somewhere between Dachau and Munich, twenty-two-year-old Mike Barnes experienced the dawning of the psychic break he’d been anticipating almost all his life. “Times over the years when I have tried to describe what followed,” he writes of t