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A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical introduction to this splendid anthology--the first of its kind--psychiatrist an...more
Paperback, 404 pages
Published
November 14th 2008
by Oxford University Press, USA
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This is my favorite poetry anthology. Absolutely essential.
This is a book, long awaited, unlike any other anthology. Here are poets who all have pain and relief in common, and poems that can directly teach us how to cope with our own pain and empathize with sorrows of others.
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