Madness by Sax, Sam

Madness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143131700)

Vendor: Sam Sax
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Madness by Sax, Sam

Madness

$18.00
Madness by Sax, Sam

Madness

$18.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition

In this ­­­powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet's personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity, heterosexuality, masculinity, normality, and health. sax's innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.

Author: Sam Sax
ISBN-10: 0143131702
ISBN-13: 9780143131700
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2017
Booklist 09/15/2017 pg. 11
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2017
By Sam Sax
By Sam Sax
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sam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, The MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Michener Center for Writers. He's the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Poetry, and other journals.

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