Myself A Paperclip

Triny Finlay

• Editorial: icehouse poetry
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781773102979
• Categoría: Littérature
• Categoría: Poésie canadienne

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) and J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award

Leaving a drawer open in here
is like leaving your fly undone
is like letting a scab hang off a healing wound.

In Myself A Paperclip, Finlay sketches the internal self and the external whir of the psychiatric ward, laying bare its daily rhythms. Memories, musings, echoes, and meditations on stigma coalesce: quarters dispensed into a payphone to listen to the stunned silence of a partner; Splenda packets and rice pudding hoarded in dresser drawers; counting back from ten as electrodes connect with the temple.

Deeply personal and reflective, Myself A Paperclip confronts abuse and experiences with debilitating mental illnesses, therapies, and hospitalizations, all shaped into the remarkable form of a serial long poem.

Índice

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Also by Triny Finlay
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• ....
• Adjusting the Psychotropics
• Self-Portrait as Paperclip
• #MeToo, and You, and You, and You, Too
• Psych Ward Types: a List
• ....
• You Don’t Want What I’ve Got
• ....
• Where I Meet My Diagnoses in the Real World
• Eat Better, Do Better: a Psych Ward Lament
• Advice to the Mentally Ill from the Queen Bee
• The Routines Spill Their Secrets
• ....
• Rejected Embroidery Projects
• Notes
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author