Boiled owls /
A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression and anxiety while thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family and a writer’s compulsion to write. Boiled Owls refers to an old colloquialism, to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nightboat Books,
[2024].
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| Summary: | A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression and anxiety while thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family and a writer’s compulsion to write. Boiled Owls refers to an old colloquialism, to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider world and recovering friends, family, love and humor as strands of support. Troubling the dogma and pop cultural representations of twelve-step program discourse, Sharma emphasizes the mundane and non-linear aspects of recovery, ultimately positing addiction as an internalization of capitalism and recovery as the development of a socialist consciousness. |
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| Physical Description: | 56 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781643622354 1643622358 |