Description
ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL
A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.
In the summer of 1977, standing on a roadside somewhere between Dachau and Munich, twenty-two-year-old Mike Barnes experienced the dawning of the psychic break he'd been anticipating almost all his life. "Times over the years when I have tried to describe what followed," he writes of that moment, "it has always come out wrong." In this finely wrought, deeply intelligent memoir of madness, its antecedents and its aftermath, Barnes reconstructs instead what led him to that moment and offers with his characteristic generosity and candor the captivating account of a mind restlessly aware of itself.
Author: Mike Barnes
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781771965125
ISBN10: 1771965126
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Medical (Incl. Patients)
- Medical | Mental Health
About the Author
Mike Barnes, a dual Canadian-American citizen, has published eleven books across a range of genres: poetry, short fiction, novels, and memoir. His last nonfiction book, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver, has been praised by Margaret Atwood as "Timely, lyrical, tough, accurate." Born in Rochester, Minnesota, he lives in Toronto.