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"An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition. In this powerful debut collection, Sam Sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dextero...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sax, Sam, 1986- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
Series:	Penguin poets. National poetry series.
Subjects:	Mental illness > Poetry. Poésie > Collections. POETRY > American > General. Poetry. Mental illness > Poetry Poetry American poetry. poetry. Gay poetry. American poetry Poésie.

Table of Contents:

Nomenclature
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Pyschotherapy
Prediagnosis
#Hypochondria
Transorbital lobotomy
Fever therapy
Willowbrook
On prep or on prayer
Men
Psychotherapy
Diagnosis
#Mania
Klonopin
Warning: red liquid
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hematololgy
Satyriasis
The surgeon
On prep or on prayer
At E
Psychotherapy
On syphilis
On Hysteria
On mass hysteria
On trepanation
On alcohol
On conversion therapy
On prep or on prayer
N ature
Psychotherapy
Postdiagnosis
Fairy tale
Miasma
Generational memory
Surgery theater
#Melancholia
Relapse
Theia mania
A.S.H. Cemetery [Austin, Texas]
Erasure.