Research Catalog

Title

Living in storms : contemporary poetry and the moods of manic-depression / edited by Thom Schramm.

Publication

Spokane, Wash. : Eastern Washington University Press, [2008], ©2008.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Schramm, Thom.

Description

xxxi, 218 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Living in Storms gathers poems by eighty contemporary poets whose lives have been in some way touched by manic-depression. Their singular perspectives combine to create an intimate and richly textured portrait of the disorder - its rhythms and metaphors. By opening a series of windows onto the experience of acute moods, the collection aims to bring depth and nuance to the popular imagination and to serve as a counterpoint to the existing literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Manic-depressive illness > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191) and index.

Contents

Foreword / David Wojahn -- Introduction / Thom Schramm -- How It Is -- Manic / William Matthews -- Depressive / William Matthews -- depression / Lyn Lifshin -- Mania: Early Phase / Joyce Carol Oates -- Bipolar / Steven Cramer -- Happiness / Jane Kenyon -- Sadness / Michael Blumenthal -- Mania / Susan Hahn -- Eclipse / Chana Bloch -- Circus Framework / Brian Swann -- Depression / Lyn Lifshin -- "Holes I want to creep into" / David Ignatow -- Figure of Distress in a Field / Brigit Kelly -- Having It Out with Melancholy / Jane Kenyon -- In the Mood -- Rock Star Dream / Daniel Halpern -- This / Peter Klappert -- Interiors / Marcia Southwick -- No Country You Remember / Robert Mezey -- The Logic of Opposites / Alane Rollings -- Returning from the Shopping Center to the Suburbs / Peter Cooley -- Fighting Despair: A Haiku Sequence / Liz Rosenberg -- The Depression: Triple Haiku / Liz Rosenberg -- I'm Sure / David Ignatow -- Born Again in a Moment of Amnesia / Marcia Southwick -- Spinning / David Ignatow -- Parallax / Jeffrey Zable -- A Dead Heart / Diana Chang -- Disorder / Erica Dawson -- St. Dympna and St. Ottilia / Patricia Vermillion -- Shaking Off the Dark / Tino Villanueva -- A Dreamer / Daniel Hoffman -- Remembering the Episodes -- Exile / Robert Pinsky -- Glass / Suzanne Paola -- On Lithium: After One Year / After Two / Rika Lesser -- The Poet to His Tongue / Peter Meinke -- Streaming / Diana Chang -- Astrophysics / Reg Saner -- Granary for Pop / Alan Naslund -- A Lonely Stretch of Road / Dick Allen -- Lithium Sonnet / Albert Goldbarth -- Characters -- "And Can Ye Sing Baluloo When the Bairn Greets?" / Anthony Hecht -- The Shape of Happiness / Susan Hahn -- Question / Reginald Gibbons -- Snow / Donna Trussell -- What She Had Believed All Her Life / Alberto Alvaro Rios -- Mountaineering / Diana Chang -- from Tubes / Donald Hall -- Portrait Sketch / Angela Ball -- The Madwoman by Picasso / Marjorie Power -- Friends and Family -- Depression / Edward Brash -- Against Telephones / Vern Rutsala -- from A Brief History of Antidepressants / David Hernandez -- My Friend Who Sings Before Breakfast / Enid Shomer -- The Ash / William Heyen -- Somnia / Gwen Head -- Figures of the Human / David Ignatow -- Analytical Episodes / Reginald Gibbons -- God's Face / Richard Krawiec -- To Play by Heart / Pamela Uschuk -- Thorns / Cheryl Savageau -- Arrow / Nina Nyhart -- Bipolar Affective Disorder as Possible Adaptive Advantage / Belle Waring -- Thanksgiving / Steven Cramer -- Learning to Feed Ourselves / Carole Ann Borges -- The Artist -- Mountain View with Figures / Paul Mariani -- The Poet's House Preserved as a Museum / Leonard Nathan -- In the Grove: The Poet at Ten / Jane Kenyon -- Now, As We Drop: A Poem of Guilt / Tina Villanueva -- "The animal night sweats of the spirits burn" / Gregory Luce -- Meditation on Virginia Woolf's Final Diary Entry, Written Three Weeks Before Her Suicide / Robert J. Levy -- Irises / Peter Cooley -- Man on Fire / C. B. Follett -- The Enclosed Field / Peter Cooley -- Christopher Smart / Edward Hirsch -- from Epigraphs / Gerald Barrax -- Bedlam / David Baker -- Traumerei / Linda Bierds -- Daily Shifts -- Retreat / Anthony Hecht -- Explanation / Jean Lenski -- This Dream / Philip Booth -- The Mole / Daniel Halpern -- The Mood Museum: Anxiety / Marcia Southwick -- In the Crepuscular / Peter Cooley -- New Days / Liz Rosenberg -- Days and Nights / Harvey Shapiro -- The Mood Museum: Sloth &: Torpor / Marcia Southwick -- Bewildering Miracle / Michael Pettit -- Don't Know / Lawson Fusao Inoda -- The Mood Museum: Depression / Marcia Southwick -- Again / Tino Villanueva -- Helpless, We Go Into This Ground, Helpless / Leo Connellan -- With the Seasons -- Depression / Hayden Carruth -- There / Cynthia Huntington -- Something Is There / Carol Lem -- Paperweight: The State I'm In / Sandra Agricola -- Stasis / Jane Flanders -- Depression in Winter / Jane Kenyon -- Grief / Susan Ludvigson -- Fat Tuesday / Michael Pettit -- Bipolar / Brian Swann -- Grief in Early Spring / William Hathaway -- Spring Lettuce / Elspeth Cameron Ritchie -- The End of Winter / David Budbill -- Mania / Miriam Dyak -- Hurricane Watch / Linda Pastan -- Vegetable Garden After Too Much Rain / Sheila Cowing -- Depression Beginning in 1956 / Ira Sadoff -- Dominion: Depression / C. K. Williams.

ISBN

• 9781597660310 (alk. paper)
• 1597660310 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007035618
• 99820453845

OCLC

• ocn166378618
• 166378618
• SCSB-5408179

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries