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A skillful re-conception of the old poetic form the aisling,—literally meaning “dream vision” or “vision-poem”—An Dantomine Eerly follows the recollections of the Irish-American poet Dallin as he makes his passage into death. Along with his wife Aìsling, the two flee an obscure political persecution which leads to her graphic, planned murder. His inner conflict reigns, and the impact of Aìsling’s death afflicts a lone Dallin in ways he cannot comprehend, spiraling him headlong into his own death and his meeting with the mythic celestial escort, An Dantomine Eerly. J.R.D. (Jarett) Middleton lives in Seattle. His debut novel, An Dantomine Eerly, began on a typewriter in a house with no electricity on Monhegan Island in Maine. It was written and completed in the following four years while traveling and living in New Hampshire, New York City, and Philadelphia. An Dantomine Eerly is the surreal narrative of the Irish-American poet Dallin as he passes into death. Jarret studied writing at Concordia University and the University of New Hampshire. His early works include Station Wagon Nightmares, a travel chronicle of six months on the road, and the chapbooks Misery State Veterans and I-LXIV, along with screenplay collaborations in New York. Middleton’s work offers an intense lyrical and meditative focus on the details of life's subtle and obscure qualities, seeking to provide a literature that is not "about" experience but is experience itself. Village Books is pleased to stock Jarret's book, beginning in early June.  Please call the store for more information: 360-671-2626.