In my dreams/I love like an idea

by Tyler Raso

In my dreams/I love like an idea is a wandering reckoning with living, loving, and medicalized mental illness. The collection begins with a diagnosis with Bipolar Disorder, and spills from there, rupturing toward rest, tenderness, togetherness, breath, and against prescription-as Raso bleeds together the personal and the clinical, the telescopic and the microscopic, the avoidant and the intimate. Parodying the voices and forms of self-help, self-care, and psychiatry, Raso injects lyric into the boxes crafted to confine those diagnosed. Sometimes diary, sometimes debris, sometimes love song, In my dreams/I love like an idea is a poetry chapbook obsessed with being alive, and exploring the sore and quiet places where its aliveness touches the world.

Genres: Poetry

50 pages, Paperback

Published May 16, 2023

Reviews

[teja · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Discover a new way to say I am alive. Another. Another. Another. Eventually the living will take over.”

mind-blown by these poems and the way they explore and explode clinical language. also feeling inspired by all the different forms in this book!! i felt so seen by this collection <3

[Nina Boals · Rating 5 out of 5]

A stunning collection which expands and innovates the boundaries of form while interrogating clinical language and labeling. I’m grateful for these poems which reckon with mental health in a way that is so real and tender and compassionate.

[Laura Dzubay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible, expansive, kind work. I will be thinking about these poems for a long time <3