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A Mind Apart - Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction (Hardcover)
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A Mind Apart - Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction (Hardcover)
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"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much
sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are
deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most
divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical
and clinical introduction to this splendid anthology--the first of
its kind--psychiatrist and poet Mark S. Bauer considers mental
disorders from multiple perspectives and challenges us to broaden
our outlook. He has selected more than 200 poems from across seven
centuries that reflect a wide range mental states--from despondency
and despair to melancholy, mania, and complete submersion into a
world of heightened, original perception. Featuring such poets as
George Herbert, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Berryman,
Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, Weldon Kees, Lucille Clifton, Jane
Kenyon, and many others, A Mind Apart has much to offer those who
suffer from mental illness, those who work to understand it, and
all those who value the poetry that has come to us from the heights
and depths of human experience.
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