act normal
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act normal

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act normal

About this book

i might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin'd self / what was stitched into heaven's drop

The poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy.

act normal starts in an institution where children categorized and constructed as intellectually inferior are placed into custodial care. These poems are inquisitive, articulating the entanglements of lives across categories of difference – particularly the lives of those who as children were considered to be other or less than human. Drawing upon conversations, archival materials, court cases, legislation, transcripts, and case histories, among other sources, nancy davis halifax's poems destabilize categories of meaning – understanding disability and difference as "undecidability."

act normal is a movement of "feelingthought," unsettling normative expectations and inviting readers to re-orient from the normative task of assuming the safety of consensual interpretation, while risking, cherishing, and performing non-indifference.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. CONTENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. 1927
  6. 1928
  7. DO NOT SAY THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW 1960
  8. WILLISTON 1971: FAILURE & INHUMANITY
  9. A BETTER CHANCE OF PREVAILIN’
  10. THE GOVERNMENT KNEW: THEY DID NOTHING
  11. ASYLUM
  12. 35 MILLION $
  13. 3 KILOMETRES AWAY
  14. THE CONSTITUTION OF SUBJECTS
  15. ACT NORMAL: A CHARM
  16. BEAUTY AT THE PROPER DISTANCE \ IN SONG
  17. LISTENIN’ OVER A DISTANCE
  18. LAKE SIMCOE
  19. THE LONELY LAWS ] hmmm [
  20. NASTY
  21. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU’RE HERE
  22. LITHICS
  23. ESCAPE
  24. & WHAT IF YOU CANNOT
  25. RAVEN 1952
  26. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE
  27. UNCALCULABLE
  28. SOME KIND OF ASTRONAUT
  29. PREVENTION & CORRECTION
  30. RADFORD WRITES:
  31. THEIR FEAR INTENDS A FUTURE BARREN OF
  32. APOLOGY (UNDER ERASURE)
  33. THE GRAVITY OF CARROTS
  34. RCT
  35. WHAT IS LEFT
  36. THE LIGHTING OF THE WARDS
  37. TO FAIL MORE FULLY
  38. THE LACK OF AN ABSOLUTE
  39. ] THAT THE AFTER ME IS UNCERTAIN IS CERTAIN [
  40. A DISTANCE TO EASE THE LONELY
  41. THE WRITIN’ OF HAPPY BEGINS: WHAT I CAN & CANNOT
  42. THE BUILDIN’S NOT THE CURE
  43. MATTERS OF CARE
  44. YOU ARE JUST ] FOR THOSE WHO WERE & ARE [
  45. CONSENT TO INVESTIGATION TREATMENT OR OPERATIVE PROCEDURE
  46. A THREAT HAD TO EXIST IN ORDER TO EXPAND & SUSTAIN THE INSTITUTION
  47. THERE IS ] MUST BE [ EVIDENCE: AN “INQUIRY INTO THE ADEQUACY OF CARE” 1848
  48. THE WEIGHT OF DISREGARD
  49. A COMPLETE SEVERIN
  50. REDACTED: STIGMATA OF
  51. SYSTEMATIC ACTION OF A WILL UPON ANOTHER IN VIEW OF ITS IMPROVEMENT
  52. IN ITS STATEMENT OF DEFENCE, THE PROVINCE DENIED THAT ANY ABUSE OR MISTREATMENT HAPPENED AT THE INSTITUTION
  53. PROPERLY APPLIED STERILIZATION WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO HUMANITY
  54. SOMETHING YOUR MOTHER CROCHETED \ HELD NEXT TO SKIN \
  55. NOTES
  56. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  57. WITH GRATITUDE