Madness
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Beschreibung
In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity, heterosexuality, masculinity, normality, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
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Beiträge
m a d n e s s Sam Sax‘s „madness“ is a mesmerising collection of poems that dives deep into the world of mental illness. The poems explore how being labeled „mad“ can harm a person, but they do so with a pinch of dark humour. There is no shying away from any topic here. From all the questionable procedures that were done on “hysterical“ women to being stigmatised nowadays. madness is haunting, beautiful, and surprisingly funny at times: ~ maybe the worms do the worm in the earth ~ It’s a great read for anyone interested in the nuances of mental health. What‘s come from all our progress? All our progression from animal into angel into engine?
Beschreibung
In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity, heterosexuality, masculinity, normality, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
m a d n e s s Sam Sax‘s „madness“ is a mesmerising collection of poems that dives deep into the world of mental illness. The poems explore how being labeled „mad“ can harm a person, but they do so with a pinch of dark humour. There is no shying away from any topic here. From all the questionable procedures that were done on “hysterical“ women to being stigmatised nowadays. madness is haunting, beautiful, and surprisingly funny at times: ~ maybe the worms do the worm in the earth ~ It’s a great read for anyone interested in the nuances of mental health. What‘s come from all our progress? All our progression from animal into angel into engine?