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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Boiled Owls

Boiled Owls

Sharma, Azad

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1643622358
ISBN13: 9781643622354
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writer's compulsion to write.

Boiled Owls refers to an old colloquialism: to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider world and recovering friends, family, love, and humor as strands of support. Troubling the dogma and pop cultural representations of twelve-step program discourse, Sharma emphasizes the mundane and non-linear aspects of recovery, ultimately positing addiction as an internalization of capitalism and recovery as the development of a socialist consciousness.

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