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  1 0 Amy gerstler! Amazing poems loosely based on child hood sickness and some madness. One book is Called crown of weeds and nerve storm. Open books in Wallingford should Cary them sublevelthree answered in Book Recommendations 5 months ago | Report 2 comments by late bloomer and sublevelthree… 0 0 Gerstler is on my list (btw, those are great book titles). Thanks kindly, sbulevlethree. late bloomer commented 5 months ago | Report 1 0 I think it's crown of weeds that has an amazing poem about sneaking through the bushes to watch some people making out when she's really little while drinking some tainted mik that gives her scarlet fever and the poem is like a fever dream of the month she was in bed sick. I haven't read it in years but this question has reminded me to find my copy again. Her pomes kind of slip in and out of that space between reality and the space that minds make up in a really beautiful way. I normally am not that into poetry but I was recommended to read her stuff when I was an undergrad and struggling with ways of bringing visual images into writing when your brain feels scrambled and how images can ruminate and become more real than reality. It's almost like you're slipping into a painting and trying to dechiper what's happening and what's created ( turning fact into fiction because it feels more real ) sublevelthree commented 5 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Good question! There are many great poems on these topics and you might want to browse through some collections of them. Here are some poetry anthologies that include poems on personal struggle having to do with loss, depression, and healing: The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2644377030_the_art_of_losing Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-depression http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2481357030_living_in_storms A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2540448030_a_mind_apart Each of these books includes excellent poems by well-established poets. The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database is an excellent resource for finding poems or books of poems about these topics. It doesn't contain the poems, but each book listed in the database is described and annotated, with a short commentary. After you find something that interests you, you could see if the library has it, of course! Here's the link to the list of topics the database covers: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Keyword?action=list  You can search for poems here: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Search?action=startann [Click on the "Art Form/Genre/Medium" drop-down menu to choose "Poem" or "Poems (sequence)" for books.] --A Seattle Public Library staff member T answered in Book Recommendations 5 months ago | Report 1 comment by late bloomer… 0 0 Wow, thanks for this wealth of information! I found one book, "We Heal From Memory," about the poems of Sexton, Lorde, and Anzaldua, but SPL doesn't have it. I will definitely check out the databases you suggest. late bloomer commented 5 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 "If you've ever stood at the edge of a curb or a cliff wishing for the shove of a stranger..." This is the start of "Slow Up" by Tara Hardy. The rest of the text is here: http://www.seattle.gov/council/licata/poetry2003-2005/p_0008b_th.htm I'm not sure if this is in her book "Bring Down the Chandeliers", the Amazon blurb for which says "In these poems you will find sex and survival turned inside out, offering fresh perspective on what it means to be counted among the wounded." You can also find her chap books at local Seattle stores. Tom Sackett answered in Book Recommendations 5 months ago | Report 1 comment by late bloomer… 0 0 Thank you, Tom. I will check out Hardy's poem and book. late bloomer commented 5 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Try some poetry works from Janet Frame, an honoured New Zealand writer (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Order of New Zealand) who struggled with madness, anxiety and depression. Janet Frame spent years hospitalized, and "was scheduled for a lobotomy that was canceled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize." (Wikipedia) Not exclusively a poet, Janet Frame has published two books of verse, one posthumously: 1967. The Pocket Mirror. New York: Braziller. 2006. The Goose Bath. Auckland: Random House/Vintage Jane Campion directed a film biography of Frame, called An Angel at My Table. As recounted in the first volume of her autobiographies, Frame's childhood was marred by the deaths of two of her adolescent sisters, Myrtle and Isabel, who drowned in separate incidents, and the epileptic seizures suffered by her brother George (referred to as "Geordie" and "Bruddie"). Print biographies and Angel at My Table describe other ordeals and torments. Christina L answered in Book Recommendations 5 months ago | Report 1 comment by late bloomer… 0 0 I loved An Angel at My Table. Thank you very much for this; I will definitely check out Frame's verse. Cheers! late bloomer commented 5 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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