Daybook from Sheep Meadow

By Peter Dimock In his newest novel, widely-praised experimental novelist Peter Dimock explores literature’s capacity to re-plot America’s political trajectory in the midst of the shuttering of empire. Publication Date: June 8, 2021 Paperback: 9781646050598 eBook:  9781646050604 Description Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson returns to the breakdown of America’s imperialist history reflected in Peter Dimock’s groundbreaking previous novel, George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time. In Daybook, Dimock expands on what it means to refute the narrative of American exceptionalism – and what happens once one starts on that path.Historian Tallis Martinson has grappled for years with the atrocities of the American past through meditative notebook entries, wherein he has attempted to create a “historical method” that guides an individual’s personal thought outside the language of empire. When words end up failing him completely, he commits himself to a p