That Kind of Sleep
Reviews

"That Kind of Sleep is a pendulum between cultures, and I might add, epochs. Reading these Islamic-Persian influenced poems, one disappears through so many columns of history, [Atefat-Peckham] intermingles the places, the references . . . . The poetic interior made up of so many geometric forms singing from a minaret of vantage vision. There are poems about becoming a woman and poems about death that are full of so much sense of life. This poet is from America and from an interior of incense, gives us a joy of flashes which makes us all ancient and renewed in a paradise of language, dancing in spirals, whirling, whirling."-Victor Hernández Cruz, National Poetry Series Judge

"Like Rumi, Atefat-Peckham finds holiness in immanence, the presence of beloved family. Her rich and sophisticated poems lead readers from Iran to Switzerland to the United States, Tehran to Staten Island and beyond, to renew our faith in empathy and the healing properties of human love. These poems help reconcile political divisions and human separations. Oh, lucky to be here, with her, in this artful book." - Hilda Raz

"The poems collected in That Kind of Sleep are extraordinary in their range and depth. They glow with warmth and beauty and yet they convey harsh realities. I read the poems all the way through and then went back to them again and again for new discoveries." - Nahid Rachlin