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    612-822-4611

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Ajar

Ajar

Lapierre, Margo

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ISBN10: 1771839880
ISBN13: 9781771839884
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: Oct 31 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.97 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

The poems in Ajar navigate the physical and psychological dangers of womanhood through the flattening lens of mood disorder. Psychosis isn't the opposite of reality--it's another perceptual system. If neurotypical thought measures the world in centimetres, this collection measures it in inches, gallons, amperes. Ajar celebrates radical recovery from gendered violence and psychotic paradigm shifts, approaching madness through prismatic inquiry. As time converges within us, we find new ways to heal and grow. From the emergency room to the pharmacy to the fertility clinic to the dis/comfort of home and memory, this collection humanizes bipolar psychosis.

These poems depict suicidality and some of the violences that worsen the risk. In Canada, the suicide crisis helpline is 988 and it's available 24/7.

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