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Creeping Cadence and Cadence Continues: Poetry in the Life of a Schizophrenic
CREEPING CADENCE ----This text covers a time during which I was losing my sanity, but expresses an important idealism and sense of aesthetic, some of which has remained with me... Largely the text accounts of how schizophrenia might be an intellectual ailment... What is expressed is as much a search for complexity as it is a search for organization---- CADENCE CONTINUES... ===The second document was formed on an intuition that my mental state had changed, around the period of my attempt at college ... and initial diagnosis... The very end of this material, before the post-script, occurred after my diagnosis... The poetry journal / diary occurs during a period of unmedicated schizophrenia; Some thoughts are concatenated, others seem to meet up with some kind of tension or pain; But the poems occasionally reach the power I intend to imbibe them with===
174 pages, Paperback
First published January 8, 2013
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May 4, 2014
The cover of the book made my Dad think I had murdered someone. But in fact, these are deceptively innocent poems which demonstrate a lot of knowledge and humanity.
The poems come from my early period, a time in which I had a lot of creativity but felt a little dirty about writing.
There are a wide variety of poems in this book. It is organized like a journal, separated into two sections, which refer to documents I wrote while I was in high school, and in my first year of college, which was the time of the Sept. 11 attack.
I was in upstate New York at the time, sleeping in my dorm. But when I woke up, what I surprise I had! I thought someone had dropped an atomic bomb.
I was on the Dean's List for academic accomplishment, but developed schizophrenia, perhaps partly out of an inability to resolve my parents' resentment about the cost of my college.
Some complex issues are at work in these poems, perhaps including video games, straight sexuality, urban grit, and a confrontation with metaphysical paradoxes.
I recommend the book for those who collect my work, or like poems or Nietzsche.
The poems come from my early period, a time in which I had a lot of creativity but felt a little dirty about writing.
There are a wide variety of poems in this book. It is organized like a journal, separated into two sections, which refer to documents I wrote while I was in high school, and in my first year of college, which was the time of the Sept. 11 attack.
I was in upstate New York at the time, sleeping in my dorm. But when I woke up, what I surprise I had! I thought someone had dropped an atomic bomb.
I was on the Dean's List for academic accomplishment, but developed schizophrenia, perhaps partly out of an inability to resolve my parents' resentment about the cost of my college.
Some complex issues are at work in these poems, perhaps including video games, straight sexuality, urban grit, and a confrontation with metaphysical paradoxes.
I recommend the book for those who collect my work, or like poems or Nietzsche.
June 30, 2013
Considering this is schizophrenic poetry, it does remarkably well. Readers may find that this is 'juicier' and more creative writing than many other sources, and also abstract. However, it's not as conventional as mainstream poetry books, as the title suggests. It doesn't feel like a publisher, it feels like an author. You get to be 'inside my head'.
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