Only Christopher Dewdney could mine the darkest pools of lore, legend, natural history, science, cultural history and the arts to recast the seemingly commonplace aspects of an ordinary night into a magical and exhilarating nocturnal tour.
Using an original hour-by-hour structure that follows night’s progression from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, Dewdney explores and celebrates a single representative night at each point on the clock.
• 6:00 pm: The setting sun begins Dewdney’s search todiscover the perfect sunset.
• 10:00 pm: The evening rhythms of the city hit theirstride, from the cop on the night beat to the backbeatof the clubs.
• Midnight: The hour of romance and magic.
• 3:00 am: Dewdney is wide awake at a sleep clinic.
• 5:00 am: “The desperate hour,” we enter a provocativecultural investigation of the “art of darkness.”
For all those who’ve been wondering what they’ve been missing while they sleep, Acquainted with the Night is an illuminating exploration and a terrific gift book.

Acquainted With The Night

Literature & Fiction

Dewdney, Christopher

World Literature

HarperCollins, Publishers

Never before has human life been able to change itself, to reach into its own genetic structure and rearrange its molecular basis -- now it can. We are about to enter the transitional period between the human and posthuman eras -- the transhuman age. In Last Flesh, poet, philosopher and media critic Christopher Dewdney takes a personal look at this transitional era -- its culture, media and technology. | The goal of transhumanism is to surpass our human limitations, and already this new era is being heralded by an unprecedented expansion of human capabilities. Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and neuroscience are about to give humans the keys to their own destiny. Voice-recognition, as well as computer-assisted literature and art, will provide a new cultural richness. Nano-technology, robotics and physics will produce astounding new advances in engineering. Last Flesh explores the impact, both social and moral, of these innovations. | Sweeping broadly across our present-day media landscape -- from the Internet to body piercing, from televisions to prostheses, from plastic surgery to cryonics -- Last Flesh recasts the present in the shifting and eerie light of the deep future. A thoughtful and accessible interpretation of our changing species by one of our most original thinkers, Last Flesh is brilliant and provocative.

Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Harpercollins Canada

GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FINALIST Christopher Dewdney takes us on an enchanting hour-by-hour journey through the night. With eloquence and insight, Dewdney explores this dark frontier in its many guises: as it seeps into the habitats of nocturnal creatures, takes its place in our bedtime stories and ancient myths, makes its way into our sleeping bodies. Whether investigating the cosmology of the night or visiting a modern sleep clinic, Dewdney brings a philosopher’s mind, a scientist’s thirst and a poet’s eye to his subject. Highly acclaimed in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., Acquainted with the Night is bedside reading at its most intimate and illuminating.

History & Criticism

Harper-perennial

We prepare for it each evening, and spend half our lives in its embrace, yet night retains its mysteries. In Acquainted With The Night, author and poet Christopher Dewdney takes readers on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal realm. Twelve chapters correspond to the twelve hours of an 'ideal' night, starting at 6pm and ending at 6am, and serve as points of departure for night's central themes; from sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, festivals of the night, fireworks, nightclubs, astronomy, sleep and dreams, to the graveyard shift, ladies of the night, the art of night, and endless nights. With boundless curiosity, a lyrical, intimate tone, and an eye for night-time beauties both natural and manmade, Dewdney paints a captivating portrait of the hours of darkness.

Acquainted With the Night : A Celebration of the Dark Hours

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The Radiant Inventory

Poetry

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Christopher Dewdney’s love for the landscape and the flora and fauna of southwestern Ontario has provoked some of the most gorgeously erotic prose ever to appear in this country. From that love, augmented by ardent research in the field, emerges a marvellously compelling, futuristic vision of time and space collapsed into near-simultaneity. Books IV and V of The Natural History of Southwestern Ontario, presented in Signal Fires, are self-contained sections of a continuing prose poem deeply satisfying in its density. The New-Old World of this long poem, written over a fifteen-year period, is sensuously and conceptually so immediate that orgasm and epiphany are one in it. This is writing, and reading, as immersion. Accompanying the natural histories in Signal Fires are poems with a different but equally involving music, lyrics of loss and redemption in which human relationships are central.

Signal Fires

Genre Fiction

Alter sublime

Coach House Press

A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney’s poetics encapsulate often surreal experiences from radical and epiphenomenal perspectives. His writing vibrates in a standing wave between science and art, reason and myth―embedding geology, neurophysiology, linguistics, and post-digital technology within a play of transitory viewpoints. Children of the Outer Dark provides a geological survey of Dewdney’s poetic strata. The poems selected, along with their order of presentation, serve a critical function to mine diverse layers of development in Dewdney’s career. This collection will reward all those who seek inspiration and will provide teachers, students, and other writers with a short natural history of one of Canadas essential poetic minds.

Children of the Outer Dark: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney (Laurier Poetry)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

The Secular Grail: Paradigms of Perception

The secular grail: Paradigms of Perception

Religion & Spirituality

Somerville House Books

Spring Trances in the Control Emerald Night and the Cenozoic Asylum

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