Author: Richard M. Berlin Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM ISBN: 0801895294 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 201
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In this collection of 16 essays, poets discuss psychiatric treatment and their work. Poets on Prozac shatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse. The sixteen essays collected here address many provocative questions: Does emotional distress inspire great work? Is artistry enhanced or diminished by mental illness? What effect does substance abuse have on esthetic vision? Do psychoactive medications impinge on ingenuity? Can treatment enhance inherent talents, or does relieving emotional pain shut off the creative process? Featuring examples of each contributor’s poetry before, during, and after treatment, this original and thoughtful collection finally puts to rest the idea that a tortured soul is one’s finest muse. Honorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Psychology. “A fascinating collection of 16 essays, as insightful as they are compulsively readable. Each is honest and sharply written, covering a range of issues (depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosis, substance abuse or, in acutely deadpan Andrew Hudgins’s case, “tics, twitches, allergies, tooth-grinding, acid reflux, migraines . . . and shingles”) along with treatment methods, incorporating personal anecdotes and excerpts from poems and journals. . . . Anyone affected by mental illness or intrigued by the question of its role in the arts should find this volume absorbing.” —Publishers Weekly “Berlin has done a marvelous job of showing us how ordinary poets are; the selected poets have shown us that mental illness shares with other experiences a capacity to reveal our humanity.” —Metapsychology
Author: Amber Dawn Publisher: arsenal pulp press ISBN: 1551527820 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 239
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In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. In a variety of forms ranging from lyrics to list poems to found poetry to hybrid works, these authors express themselves with the complexity, agency, and honesty that sex workers are rarely afforded. Contributors from Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia include Gregory Scofield, Tracy Quan, Summer Wright, and Akira the Hustler. As an antidote to the invasive and often biased media depictions of sex workers, Hustling Verse is a fiercely groundbreaking exploration of intimacy, transactional sex, identity, healing, and resilience. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Author: Nyla Matuk Publisher: Signal Editions ISBN: 9781550655339 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Poetry, Canadian Poetry, activism, Indigenous agency, cultural belonging, environmental anxieties and racial privilege. Poems included in Resisting Canada--by poets such as Lee Maracle, Jordan Abel, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Louise Bernice Halfe, Michael Prior, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson."--
Author: Robert Motherwell Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674185005 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 466
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Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.
Author: Matt Mitchell Publisher: ISBN: 9781736947784 Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
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"THIS WORLD IS CRUEL TO THOSE WHO INSIST UPON STAYING OPEN TO IT. MATT MITCHELL, THE POEMS IN GROWN OCEAN SHOW US AGAIN AND AGAIN, IS ONE SUCH SOUL- EVERYWHERE IS AN OCCASION FOR GRATITUDE AND AWE, FROM BUFFALO NICKELS TO COHABITATION TO MEAT LOAF TO ASTRONOMY TO COKE ZERO TO, YES, LOVE. AND THAT IS HARD, RETAINING SUCH A PERMEABILITY TO TENDERNESS IN A CULTURE, A NATION, THAT CONSPIRES SO RELENTLESSLY AGAINST IT. IT'S GOOD AND NOTABLE WORK, THE LOVING THESE POEMS TAKE UP. AND THEY'RE VERY GOOD POEMS." -KAVEH AKBAR, AUTHOR OF PILGRIM BELL Matt Mitchell is an intersex writer living in Columbus, Ohio. He wrote The Neon Hollywood Cowboy (Big Lucks, 2021) and tweets @matt_mitchell48.
Author: Ellen Greene Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806136646 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 260
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Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to a strong tradition of female authorship. Women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of their poetry survives only in fragmentary form. This pathbreaking volume is the first collection of essays to examine virtually all surviving poetry by Greek and Roman women. It elevates the status of the poems by demonstrating their depth and artistry. Edited and with an introduction by Ellen Greene, the volume covers a broad time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 b.c.e.) in archaic Greece and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome. In their analyses, the contributors situate the female poets in an established male tradition, but they also reveal their distinctly “feminine” perspectives. Despite relying on literary convention, the female poets often defy cultural norms, speaking in their own voices and transcending their positions as objects of derision in male-authored texts. In their innovative reworkings of established forms, women poets of ancient Greece and Rome are not mere imitators but creators of a distinct and original body of work.
Author: Peter Quartermain Publisher: ISBN: Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 360
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Essays on the writers whose works are the story of modern American poetry to World War II - the story of successive generations of writers increasingly gaining familiarity in and security with the American idiom, gaining confidence in being American poets without having to turn to Europe for models or for approval, nor of having to turn away from Europe.
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