Download or read book Mind Lesions A Poetry Collection written by M. Hutman and published by D.B. Wright. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind Lesions is a poetry collection jointly penned by M. Hutman (Mia) and D.B. Wright (Danny Boy). The collection includes a selection of their individual work, and the collaborative poems they have written together. The content touches on every subject under the poetic rainbow including love, life, death, trauma, loss, grief, turmoil, heartbreak, sadness, happiness and everything else that sparked in their joint minds. The book represents a union of two souls with an unwavering passion for writing, carrying love and truth in their pens.
Download or read book Mind Lesions A Poetry Collection written by M. Hutman and published by D.B. Wright. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind Lesions is a poetry collection jointly penned by M. Hutman (Mia) and D.B. Wright (Danny Boy). The collection includes a selection of their individual work, and the collaborative poems they have written together. The content touches on every subject under the poetic rainbow including love, life, death, trauma, loss, grief, turmoil, heartbreak, sadness, happiness and everything else that sparked in their joint minds. The book represents a union of two souls with an unwavering passion for writing, carrying love and truth in their pens.
Download or read book Veil and Burn written by Laurie Clements Lambeth and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.
Download or read book Relationship written by Janice Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captive written by Madeline Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I just want to get better and see the stars and believe in hope again." Captive, Madeline Dyer's first poetry collection, is based on the therapy writings she produced when she was experiencing psychosis and OCD due to Autoimmune Basal Ganglia Encephalitis, a rare type of brain inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the brain. While her communication skills and cognitive abilities diminished due to the effects of the inflammation, she was able to share her thoughts and emotions via the written word, a process that gave her great comfort when she otherwise felt possessed.Captive provides readers with a glimpse of her tormented mind during this dark time of loneliness, loss, and fear. PRAISE FOR MADELINE DYER"Madeline Dyer's poetry collection, Captive, is an invitation to the reader to consider the cost of physical illness on the mind and spirit. The poems are a conversation between the speaker, the outer world, and her inner tormentor: sometimes beetle, sometimes monster, sometimes friend, of her mind. Dyer's speaker, who sees herself as one "among all the crying girls" speaks mantras in triplicate and escalating parallels, pausing over the heartbreak of good days, the desire to touch and be touched, and the agony of it all."- Sherre Vernon, author of The Name is Perilous and Green Ink Wings. "Brutally honest and brilliant, this collection takes the reader through the experience of living with a crumbling mind. From the first unexplainable visions to the fight within, and the constant struggle to be heard, Dyer's poetry is a cry out to the world suffused with raw emotion. A captivating and eye-opening experience."- S.E. Anderson, author of the Starstruck Saga
Download or read book I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-03 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Download or read book Madness Ensues Poetry from Behind the Bipolar Mind written by Kaitlin Hodnett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, I dont want you to panic or anything, but I will be honest You are holding in your hands A book of poetry. I know, I know, poetry is just so outdated. Why waste your precious time, right? And with all due respect to the greats (whom I do refer To frequently and call upon in my own worksRIP, Shakespeare), I have to agree with you. With all of todays technology, pen and paper Is a dying art. And Im not afraid to admit that. Nor am I afraid to admit that I have the gall to change that. What this world needs right now is a poetic revival, A great awakening of new works, Work That is real, raw, and authentic. And that is exactly what I intend to give you. Personality, heart, and soul (wait, do gingers even have one of those?) Touching upon subjects that have been touched on before, such as death and sexuality, But have never been touched quite like this, I assure you, Thats it right there. Right here. And last but not least, dont stop Read . . . (PS: all praise be to Plath for inspiring me and for also suffering from bipolar disorder while attempting to undo the stigma against mental illness.) Heres to hoping my ending turns to be happier than hers. My only aim is that these works demonstrate what its like living from emotional extreme to emotional extreme, and most importantly, what it means To be human.
Download or read book The Bipolar Poet written by Jennifer Lynne Stout and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bipolar Poet is a book of poetry that takes the reader through the many dimensions and experiences that a person suffering from mental illness lives with day to day. The book is separated into categories including love, poetry for the broken heart, inspiration, stories, and more. A journal section follows each poem so readers can write notes and ideas as they embark on their own personal journey through the poetry. This book is a must read for anyone suffering from mental illness and anyone that suffers and rejoices as they live their lives.
Download or read book Body Count written by Kyla Jamieson and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vital début, Kyla Jamieson sifts through the raw material of her life before and after a disabling concussion in search of new understandings of self and worth. Energized by the tensions between embodiment and dissociation, Body Count flickers between Vancouver and New York, passing through dreamscapes and pain states. Both earnest and irreverent, comedic and cosmic, these poems come from a full heart (“You came here / for a kind of truth / & I want to give / you everything”) that often finds its way obstructed by fear, anxiety, and the myriad ways trauma can pattern a life. Here, we see the work of removing the barriers between this heart and the world, and glimpse the labour it takes to heal a body and mind discarded by capitalism. One part rape culture protest anthem, one part long-distance love story, one part invisible illness testimony, and 100% epistolary intimacy, Body Count is a tonic for the times we live in, an open invitation to question the textures of our realities, the ways we inhabit our bodies, and the futures we envision for ourselves and our communities.
Download or read book Poems from a Shattered Brain written by Howard Moon and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Moon has survived two major strokes that left his brain shattered. These poems reflect his experiences and thoughts about living with mental illness and healing his damaged and battered brain. The poems are based on real life experiences and reflect the daily struggles he faces and how he overcomes those struggles. Living with a mental illness and living with a shattered brain is a challenge - but it is a challenge that can be overcome. It is possible to live a happy and full life despite mental illness. Howard is a brain injury survivor and speaks at conferences in Florida about surviving and living with a brain injury (TBI). He also speaks at disability conferences about living with a disability and mental illness.
Download or read book First World War Poetry written by Jon Silkin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
Download or read book Sorry to Disrupt the Peace written by Patty Yumi Cottrell and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estranged family, her brother’s few friends, and the overzealous grief counselor, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive. A bleakly comic tour de force that’s by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles—and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.
Download or read book Poetry written by Sonja Conta and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry: A Mind of Its Own This book of poetry was written over a period of eight years. Many of the poems were in the author’s imagination, and some were based on her experiences. She found an outlet to rid herself of dangling thoughts and memories. A registered nurse by profession, she found some peace while writing about Parkinson’s disease—the big P, as she refers to it. At retirement age and at the beginning of a rough roll through life, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease—a fine retirement present! The book includes a variety of themes usually ending in a positive slant. The book includes poems that make a tribute to those who passed and that add some comfort to the ones left behind. The protagonists are people, dogs, streams, an island, and a variety of thoughts and feelings. The poems are written simply, and they do rhyme, creating a path for the poem to follow. Poems seem to have a mind of their own, leading the author on a journey she did not expect. Enjoy this collection when you are looking for something to do that will make you smile.
Download or read book Elizabeth Young the Mind s Mess written by Anna Frazier and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a response to great misfortune. Here, you will not read about hope, a journey, or how to find yourself, as this collection holds poems on trauma, healing, love, death, and the unspeakable. This book creates a space that is lacking in our world for people to know that all feelings are valid, to feel them instead of fixing them, and to find understanding through another's most hopeless moments. These poems are a place to put everything back together - an organization of the mind's mess.
Download or read book My Dark Twisted Mind written by Abigail K. Danenhower and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sit back, relax, and pour yourself a glass while you unwind, settling in to read about birth, life, death, and rebirth. Let everything said be taken with a grain of salt. Life is, after all, full of different pathways to follow. Each poem inside is based on truth and is its own story; however, if one takes the time to read each poem in the ordered sequence, they will find that there is a whole other story that transpires. You as the reader choose which path you want to follow and how these poems relate to you. Enjoy a twisted poetry book.
Download or read book Absence of Mind written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.
Download or read book Gray Matters written by Heidi Lerner and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter Poems is a collection of 42 poems, written in late '04 and early '05. It is the author's fourth published book.
