Out of the Crazywoods
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Out of the Crazywoods

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Out of the Crazywoods

About this book

Out of the Crazywoods is the riveting and insightful story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Without sensationalizing, she takes the reader inside the experience of a rapid-cycling variant of the disorder, providing a lens through which to understand it and a road map for navigating the illness. The structure of her story—impressionistic, fragmented—is an embodiment of the bipolar experience and a way of perceiving the world. Out of the Crazywoods takes the reader into the euphoria of mania as well as its ugly, agitated rage and into "the lying down of desire" that is depression. Savageau articulates the joy of being consort to a god and the terror of being chased by witchcraft, the sound of voices that are always chattering in your head, the smell of wet ashes that invades your home, the perception that people are moving in slow motion and death lurks at every turnpike, and the feeling of being loved by the universe and despised by everyone you've ever known. Central to the journey in Out of the Crazywoods is the sensitive child who becomes a poet and writer who finds clarity in her art and a reason to heal in her grandchildren. Her journey reveals the stigma and the social, personal, and economic consequences of the illness but reminds us that the disease is not the person. Grounded in Abenaki culture, Savageau questions cultural definitions of madness and charts a path to recovery through a combination of medications, psychotherapy, and ceremony.

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Information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781496219039
eBook ISBN
9781496220158
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. About This Book
  9. Bagw and Tekw
  10. Under the Crib
  11. The Pivot Point
  12. Learning to Speak
  13. What It Is
  14. Age Three—The Witch in the Bag
  15. Angels
  16. Diagnosis
  17. Dirt
  18. She’s Not Heavy, She’s My Sister
  19. The Tarot
  20. Tiger Butter
  21. look
  22. Age Seven—The Body Book
  23. Poppies
  24. At the Welfare Office
  25. Exuberance
  26. Shopping
  27. Crazy Lady in Grad School
  28. In Fourth Grade
  29. What’s Happening?
  30. Jungle Road
  31. Blackouts
  32. Voices
  33. The Bad Mother
  34. Exceptional Children
  35. The Twirling Skirt
  36. Crazy Talk I
  37. The Death Turnpike
  38. Life in the Fast Lane: Am I Paranoid,or Are They Really Out to Get Me?
  39. Meds
  40. Arthur Lloyd
  41. shades
  42. The Bra Thing
  43. I Am in Love with Rita Moreno
  44. Crazy Talk II
  45. Beautiful Doll
  46. The Ugly Year
  47. Krishna, My Love
  48. Poetry for Breakfast
  49. Cribbage
  50. Teaching Castaneda
  51. Losing Them
  52. Meditation—The Barren Road
  53. The Taster
  54. Horse Dream I
  55. Wretched
  56. Baby
  57. Sunday Afternoon with Betty Grable
  58. Islands of Sanity: Poetry
  59. My Bookstore
  60. The New House at Center Harbor
  61. When You Can’t Keep a Job
  62. Denied
  63. Islands of Sanity: Grandsons
  64. Crazy Talk III
  65. Getting Fat on Antidepressants
  66. To Whom It May Concern:
  67. Memere Stories: Sing ĂĄ Memere
  68. Sunday Dinners
  69. Pookie
  70. Peach Cobbler
  71. Falling in Love with Diane
  72. Talk Doc: Julie
  73. Grand Poobah
  74. Land of Enchantment I
  75. Stories and Storms
  76. New York in Albuquerque
  77. Leaving
  78. The Witch at the Wake
  79. Land of Enchantment II
  80. China Doll
  81. My Special One
  82. After Dropping Acid on a School Night
  83. Yeats
  84. You Bet Your Life
  85. Crazy Talk: Lonely
  86. Eating Worms I
  87. My Mother’s Side
  88. Ceremony
  89. Falling into Grace
  90. A Paycheck Away
  91. Seven Mice
  92. Christmas with Tarot Cards
  93. Geraniums
  94. Citizens for Citizens
  95. Wet Ashes
  96. The Eighth Mouse
  97. Good morning:
  98. Memere Stories: Paint
  99. Not Connect: Abilify Mania
  100. Piano
  101. Memere Stories: Talking
  102. Talk Doc: Karen
  103. Listenings
  104. Giving Myself to Beauty
  105. The Green Quilt
  106. Memere Stories: Howling
  107. Eating Worms II
  108. Greeley Park, Nashua—The Tree
  109. Maura’s Bag
  110. Talk Doc: The Real Work
  111. Relearning the Habits of Childhood
  112. Crying for Real
  113. Horse Dream II
  114. Math Games
  115. Meditation—Fern
  116. Ambien: The Butterfly, Lock, and Key
  117. sad
  118. Nearly Normal
  119. Memere Stories: Baseball
  120. Stigma
  121. What It Is For
  122. Happy
  123. AlnĂ´bawĂ´gan
  124. Acknowledgments
  125. Source Acknowledgments
  126. About Cheryl Savageau
  127. Series List
  128. Other Works by Cheryl Savageau

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