Cycle of Dreams

Eric Weiskott's Cycle of Dreams is a poetry collection that engages William Langland's Piers Plowman, using its dream-vision motifs, allegory, and political energy to reflect on twenty-first-century social and political surrealities.

The book places adaptive translations and original poems in dialogue, often pairing Langland-inspired left-hand pages with contemporary recto poems to create a conversational structure.

Weiskott experiments with formal and voice-based strategies rooted in both medieval poetics and contemporary language-school poetics.

Themes include political allegory, personhood, economic distribution, and pandemic-era reflections, with localized transpositions of Langland's settings.

The collection aims to make medieval poetics feel immediate and relevant to modern American readers.