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Undoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collection. Drawing from queer, trans, disabled and Mad poetic traditions, Differential Diagnosis introduces a deeply entangled transMad approach, investigating ways of knowing, loving and living not legible to the normative eye. This collection challenges the architecture of institutional psychiatry and its popular "wellness" analogues, offering instead a counternarrative of forced institutionalization, disorderly embodiment and transMad self-determination. At once jarring and joyful, Differential Diagnosis interrogates psychiatric power and locates capacities for disabled and/or transMad resistance in the oblique, the speculative, and the "nonsensical." Cavar's inventive full-length debut defamiliarizes cis, sane, abled existence through linguistic play and speculative imagery, offering Madness not only as poetic content, but also as craft technique and, ultimately, as a new way of being in the normative world.
Differential Diagnosis (I) -- Ooooooo provider -- Automythology (I) -- a small something (I) -- Differential Diagnosis (II) -- Self-portrait as a sour jar of pickles buried deep beneath the earth -- Confessional (Scene I) -- Differential Diagnosis (III) -- Elephants think they are the size of dogs -- wet mistress (Automythology 1.5) -- Differential Diagnosis (IV) -- Director's Cut -- The Ways of the Monster -- When I taste blood -- Confessional (Scene II) -- Half-Formed Girl Narrative -- Automythology (II) -- Differential Diagnosis (V) -- Mise en scène -- Princess Narrative -- Differential Diagnosis (VI) -- Differential Diagnosis (VII) (Haze Edition) -- Death Practice -- Diagnostician's Note -- Substitution Poem -- Confessional (Scene III) -- Differential Diagnosis (VIII) -- Changeling Narrative -- Prey Animal -- I write you from the hollow -- Have you seen my autism? -- Differential Diagnosis (IX) (Interview with a Vampire) -- Differential Diagnosis (X) (trans ED) -- My First Crime -- Envy Narrative -- impediment litany -- Differential Diagnosis (XI) -- Emails from the Monster -- a small something (II) -- Alice Narrative -- [Name*] confesses a passing fancy -- You are holy, your [Name*] is holy, etc. -- am so sorry: (an essay on ) -- in a dream-m-asks if i believe in mercy -- Interrupted Girl Narrative -- Differential Diagnosis XII -- Self-Narrative (as tragedy po e rn) -- Differential Diagnosis XIII -- Running -- Differential Diagnosis XIV -- Come, my beloved -- Endpoem -- Scraps -- After ward -- Acknowledgments.
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest