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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6080353
EAN num: 9781597660310
ISBN number: 1597660310
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Page Count: 256
Printing Date: January 15, 2008
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Manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, is estimated to affect several million Americans. Researchers and popular writers alike argue that symptoms of the condition occur with disproportionate frequency among poets, a view that has tended to reinforce the stereotype of the mad artist. But, as poet and volume editor Thom Schramm points out, the stereotype exists in part because the existing literature has for the most part neglected the intricacies of individual lives. Living in Storms aims to bring nuance and depth to the popular imagination.
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Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-Depression is an anthology of free-verse poetry collected from eighty contemporary poets who have been affected in some way by manic-depression, also known as bipolar disorder, a devastating condition known for its swings between extreme emotional highs and lows. An acutely vivid and unforgettable glimpse into the difficult world all too often experienced by creative figures. "Portrait Sketch": Women who had never enough / never for long enough- / tenterhooks then happiness / shrilled to hysteria, / lament, dullness- // watches from a distance / rain-bleached sky, lawns' / deepening with gloss- // a surface that returns incidents, / magnetic attractions, characterizations, / desires, her last heart / a midsummer pond / narrowed, glinting within leaves.
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