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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Differential diagnosis
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: Differential diagnosis (Compilation)
  name:
    name part: Cavar
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 75 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Cavar.
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest
  classification: PS3603.A89954 D54 2026
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9798899480058
  identifier: 9798899480065
  identifier: 2026001086
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260114
    record change date: 20260422163409.1
    record identifier: in00005779217