Writhing Writing: Moving Towards a Mad Poetics

by Phil Smith

“To dive into Phil Smith’s writing – a dazzling blend of poetry, ethnography, social critique, and gleefully mad wordplay – can feel more like taking a psychedelic drug than like reading the work of a distinguished scholar. And yet, a distinguished scholar he is. For two decades, he has been a bold trailblazer and innovator in the realms of education, disability studies, mad studies, neurodiversity, and poetry, and in exploring how these realms can interconnect and inform one another. Each chapter of this book is a poetic thought experiment that shreds cultural norms and assumptions, points the way toward new creative directions in scholarship, and might make your brain explode.” - Nick Walker Author, educator, and neurodiversity scholar This book is not available for Kindle or other e-readers because the intricate formatting of the text, which is integral to the author's message, could not be preserved in e-reader formats. The PDF version of the book, which preserves the formatting and can be read on tablets and computers, is available directly from our Shopify sales

Genres: Poetry, Disability Studies

184 pages, Paperback

Published May 16, 2018