Odes to lithium Poems
Book - 2019
In this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication for Bipolar Disorder. With inventiveness, compassion, and humor, she thrusts us into a world of unconventional praise. From an unexpected encounter with her grandmother's ghost, to a bubble bath with Bjrk, to her plumber's confession that he, too, has Bipolar, Erlichman buoyantly topples stigma against the mentally ill. These are necessary odes to self-acceptance, resilience, and the jagged path toward healing. With startling language, and accompanied by her bold drawings and collages, she gives us a sparkling, original view into what makes us human.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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Farmington, Maine :
Alice James Books
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 87 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781948579032
- I. Knife-Flower
- Snakes in Your Arms
- Side Effects
- Beatrice
- Cliff
- They
- Needle
- Ghazal, Interrupted
- Unrequited Teacher
- Unwished for
- Side Effects E
- The Knife-Flower
- Natural
- II. Cockroach
- I'm Sitting with Björk in My Bathtub
- Dear Dr. Stone
- There Were Others
- Margot
- The Two Things I Remember from Freshman Physics Class
- Mind over Matter
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Phineas Gage
- Portrait of a Release
- Someone Else's Mother
- Rose
- Aftertaste
- III. Baby & I
- Daveen
- The Tiger
- Lightweight
- In the Hands of
- On This End
- The Watchman
- Postscript to Mania
- A Serious Case
- Baby & I
- Conversation with K.
- Perfect
- The Runner
- Potion
- If You Were Someone
- Chloe
- IV. The Monk
- 89 Lines on a Bruise
- Excuse
- Barometer
- How the Jellyfish Prospered
- Pink Noise
- The Monk