The Danger Model
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The Danger Model

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eBook - ePub

The Danger Model

About this book

Is the self inside the body / or is it the body / or can it leave?

"How can you ask a question that you live inside?" Madelaine Caritas Longman's debut is an affecting, intelligent engagement with the often-paradoxical pursuit of self-coherence and self-presence. These prose poems, haiku, and experiments with language and form not only examine the individual search for identity but call into question the concept itself.

Inhabiting contexts as diverse as the medical system, performance art, queer adolescence, and Talmudic debate, The Danger Model considers what it means to be a "self." Searching for answers in Internet forums, the work of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and the films and installations of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, Longman brings attention to the lived experience of mental and physical illness and attempts to make meaning out of it. Disarmingly candid, intellectually rigorous, and surprisingly funny, these poems explore the luxury and burden of subjectivity by showing us what it is like to struggle to attach oneself to the world through specific desires and needs.

Provocatively realistic but also hopeful, The Danger Model is an investigation of how we come to recognize - or not recognize - ourselves and each other.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. CONTENTS
  4. white infinity net
  5. TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPULSES
  6. alone in hotels
  7. Petrocan
  8. broken sunrise
  9. room without walls
  10. tall grass
  11. Performance Piece: On the Crowd
  12. Interlude: Parking Lot
  13. through the train window
  14. Accumulation of Light in Eyelids
  15. stars between
  16. So
  17. Green Halo
  18. the old woman’s hands
  19. Strangelove Syndrome
  20. [borderline: talk]
  21. shadows on the moon
  22. Ode to Pessoa
  23. DEAR VOID
  24. all i remember about The World According to Garp
  25. Alexithymia
  26. Narcissus Sea
  27. Elegy for Lawrence Hong
  28. rain in the cedars
  29. that summer
  30. mourning
  31. in human rooms
  32. Invincible
  33. Performance Piece: On Historia
  34. Performance Piece: On Hallucination
  35. Performance Piece: On Sincerity
  36. Kusama’s Self-Obliteration
  37. Iatrogenesis
  38. I write the word REAL in red pen repeatedly down my forearm
  39. Narcissus Garden
  40. a shirt hung over a kitchen chair
  41. Intersection
  42. Book of Judges
  43. Insomnia
  44. SOMETHING LIKE LIVING
  45. cracks
  46. Tomatoes and Vinegar
  47. fullness
  48. January grass
  49. After Trainspotting
  50. first argument
  51. On Compromise
  52. After The Hours
  53. new year’s morning
  54. Drumheller
  55. creeksong
  56. Blank
  57. Acts of Daily Living
  58. NOTES AND SOURCES
  59. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS