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How to Become Invisible
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639804771
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 25 2023
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Alarie Tennille, author of Three A.M. at the Museum and Running Counterclockwise
This is a superb collection of poems that a detail personal account of experiencing bipolar disorder. Both depression and mania are vividly described, as well as the details of electroshock treatment. You can't prepare for a catastrophe, the speaker states. Neither can you prepare for the startling drama of these poems.
-Oriana Ivy, author of How to Jump From a Moving Train and Paradise Anonymous
In her hard-hitting new collection, How to Become Invisible (Kelsay, 2023), Mary McCarthy takes the role of Dante's Virgil, guiding us through the hell of bipolar disorder, where every ordinary object conceals a wealth of dark meaning, and the current moment will always be an unexpected stranger/coming at you quick/as a bullet/you must catch in your teeth (Challenges). However, while Virgil's path leads toward paradise, this dead-end road does not. The enforced normality of medication and shock treatment renders patients' minds clean as a stone (ECT The Curing), monochromatic and anonymous, nothing the speaker can recognize as normal. At the last, our guide looks backward at the intensity of madness, enticing us to rejoin her when [we too] have wrestled/with the angel/no one else can see (Invitation).
-Robbi Nester, author of Balance (White Violet, 2012), A Likely Story (Moon Tide, 2014), Other-Wise (Kelsay, 2017), and Narrow Bridge (Main Street Rag, 2019), http: //www.robbinester.net
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