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    Crazy / Mad
    Crazy / Mad
    Crazy / Mad
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    Crazy / Mad

    By AJ Dolman

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    Crazy/Mad is the latest modern poetry of resistance, against the norms and standards of a moment and against the idea of the confessional poem as a tool only for the poet themselves. Written around the poet’s lifelong fears of how their mental health, gender and orientation could be perceived and potentially punished, the poems whimper, rail and spin against continued psychological, personal and political oppressions at the human and institutional levels, including heteronormativity, monosexism and ableism; and rally for embracing all our forms of diversity, within and without.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGordon Hill Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2024
    ISBN9781774221129
    Crazy / Mad
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    AJ Dolman

    AJ Dolman (she/they) is the author of Lost Enough: A collection of short stories and three poetry chapbooks, and co-editor of Motherhood in Precarious Times. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Arc Poetry Magazine, QT Literary Magazine, The Quarantine Review, Imaginary Safe House, Grain, Canadian Ginger, On Spec, Prism international, The Fiddlehead, Utne, Crush and The Antigonish Review. They are a bi/pan+ rights advocate living on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.

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      Book preview

      Crazy / Mad - AJ Dolman

      Overthinking

      Eye drags computer brain,

      language pack, a two-four of

      thinks, brainways noting

      the and/ors and whatnots, a

      grammar frame, tongue tangled

      in the mathematical thickets

      of linguistics, exacting values,

      moreovers and thuses,

      ergo

      Ego failed Latin classes, my operating

      system developed in Nederlands,

      sorts files that equal English

      or Francais, mad tabbing for

      fragments of Espagnol,

      symbols function stops

      the holes up

      Let me tell you about Knowing

      v. Knowledge, how, sure,

      we’re never without words,

      but, boy, are we without

      language for this shit

      Inhibition

      She breaks the glass,

      just like that, a new night. Oh.

      Where to begin now?

      Bitch

      Anger, dwelling, a sorrow of stones,

      no weathers but the rains

      that misery us past the broken point

      Rage house and drag lawn and

      all the time spent,

      every moment wasted

      each my/our, your fault, mine,

      what differences there

      could still be between us,

      these spaces

      Anger fibres from the carpets,

      fills the voids, each empty room

      brimming with furniture, clocks

      and

      Atheism

      Your the isn’t

      my the is the

      only the that stands

      before hiss and hearse

      there, the theres

      are mockups of the,

      not the things

      the stands for

      but the thing

      itself, the noun

      known or un,

      the thing we the,

      first or last,

      herewithin and

      the every the

      between you the

      me, the theirs,

      lineups that wind

      past storefront isms,

      down blocks of the,

      outward, ad

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