
- 80 pages
- English
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Myself A Paperclip
About this book
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) and J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award
Leaving a drawer open in here
is like leaving your fly undone
is like letting a scab hang off a healing wound.
In Myself A Paperclip, Finlay sketches the internal self and the external whir of the psychiatric ward, laying bare its daily rhythms. Memories, musings, echoes, and meditations on stigma coalesce: quarters dispensed into a payphone to listen to the stunned silence of a partner; Splenda packets and rice pudding hoarded in dresser drawers; counting back from ten as electrodes connect with the temple.
Deeply personal and reflective, Myself A Paperclip confronts abuse and experiences with debilitating mental illnesses, therapies, and hospitalizations, all shaped into the remarkable form of a serial long poem.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Also by Triny Finlay
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- ....
- Adjusting the Psychotropics
- Self-Portrait as Paperclip
- #MeToo, and You, and You, and You, Too
- Psych Ward Types: a List
- ....
- You Don’t Want What I’ve Got
- ....
- Where I Meet My Diagnoses in the Real World
- Eat Better, Do Better: a Psych Ward Lament
- Advice to the Mentally Ill from the Queen Bee
- The Routines Spill Their Secrets
- ....
- Rejected Embroidery Projects
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author