Writer and interim dean of the College of Arts and Letters at The
University of Tampa, Dr. Don Morrill, will release a new book of
nonfiction titled
Impetuous Sleeper on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Morrill
examines the condition of wakefulness, beginning with coming out of a
dream. “I wake up and try to write down my dream,” he writes. “I do this
to re-enter my life…” He connects shared habits of the mind, the way in
which each of us attempts to make sense of the world and to understand
our part in it. Impetuous Sleeper explores a range of topics, including
home and highway, love and friendships, politics, gossip, art, privacy
and family, and employs creative nonfiction’s many forms: memoir,
reportage, history, journal entries, parables, and lyrical and personal
essays.
Morrill is the author of two collections of poetry,
At the Bottom of the Sky and
With Your Back to Half the Day, and three previous books of nonfiction,
Sounding for Cool,
A Stranger’s Neighborhood and
The Untouched Minutes, which received the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award.
Impetuous Sleeper will be available Feb. 24 at online and retail booksellers, or through
www.midlist.org. Morrill will give a reading at Inkwood Books, on Armenia Avenue in Tampa, on Friday, March 20 at 7 p.m.