Myself A Paperclip
eBook - ePub

Myself A Paperclip

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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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Information

Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781773102979
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Also by Triny Finlay
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. ....
  9. Adjusting the Psychotropics
  10. Self-Portrait as Paperclip
  11. #MeToo, and You, and You, and You, Too
  12. Psych Ward Types: a List
  13. ....
  14. You Don’t Want What I’ve Got
  15. ....
  16. Where I Meet My Diagnoses in the Real World
  17. Eat Better, Do Better: a Psych Ward Lament
  18. Advice to the Mentally Ill from the Queen Bee
  19. The Routines Spill Their Secrets
  20. ....
  21. Rejected Embroidery Projects
  22. Notes
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. About the Author