Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters With the Uncanny - Couverture souple

Barnes, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771965126 ISBN 13 : 9781771965125

Editeur : Biblioasis, 2024

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award - 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mike Barnes is the author of twelve books of poetry, short fiction, novels, and memoir. He has won the Danuta Gleed Award and a National Magazine Award Silver Medal for his short fiction, and the Edna Staebler Award for his photo-and-text essay "Asylum Walk." His most recent book of nonfiction, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver, was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award and has been praised by Margaret Atwood as "Timely, lyrical, tough, accurate." He lives in Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Biblioasis
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771965126
• ISBN 13: 9781771965125
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible