Madness

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: Sam Sax ISBN: 9781524705572
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: September 12, 2017
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Sam Sax
ISBN: 9781524705572
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: September 12, 2017
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition

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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An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition

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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