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Out of Mind & Into Body
Out of Mind & Into Body is a transMad engagement with medico-psychiatric violence, epistemic erasure, and Mad survival amidst the intolerable –– getting on and not getting better.
Advance Praise:
"The ghost of Foucault hovers in the corner of these poems, which defy their own discipline as they reach toward something more. Sarah Cavar’s aching meditation on the challenges of inhabiting a body is also a stirring and serious account of what it means to be a patient, and to patiently await -- no, to demand -- a 'getting better' that goes beyond the body and the self."
-Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories.
"If we consider poems to be onion peels all here burn to the core of the reader’s flesh. Out of Mind & Into Body by Sarah Cavar is a chapbook that delivers hard truths about Madness, hospitalization, sickness, identity. and how others and the Other discover the body (of the narrator). Poems here drum on in staccato or fast beats all the while stinging with 'prayers in drag.'"
-Rachael Crosbie, Rachael Crosbie, author of Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen.
"Out of Mind & Into Body tears through the medicalized trappings of social embodiment with analytical precision. From examining the ways in which doctors pry through autistic minds to unraveling the feminine coding of a fainting couch, Cavar leaves no diagnostic harm left unquestioned. Readers, be warned: this is a book for the faint of heart and audaciously limp of wrist. With their third stunning chapbook release in under a year, Cavar asserts themselves as an incomparable force across genres and forms. 'what does it mean when i stand naked revealing you, nothing.'"
-Fox Auslander, lead poetry editor of Alien Literary Magazine.
Advance Praise:
"The ghost of Foucault hovers in the corner of these poems, which defy their own discipline as they reach toward something more. Sarah Cavar’s aching meditation on the challenges of inhabiting a body is also a stirring and serious account of what it means to be a patient, and to patiently await -- no, to demand -- a 'getting better' that goes beyond the body and the self."
-Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories.
"If we consider poems to be onion peels all here burn to the core of the reader’s flesh. Out of Mind & Into Body by Sarah Cavar is a chapbook that delivers hard truths about Madness, hospitalization, sickness, identity. and how others and the Other discover the body (of the narrator). Poems here drum on in staccato or fast beats all the while stinging with 'prayers in drag.'"
-Rachael Crosbie, Rachael Crosbie, author of Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen.
"Out of Mind & Into Body tears through the medicalized trappings of social embodiment with analytical precision. From examining the ways in which doctors pry through autistic minds to unraveling the feminine coding of a fainting couch, Cavar leaves no diagnostic harm left unquestioned. Readers, be warned: this is a book for the faint of heart and audaciously limp of wrist. With their third stunning chapbook release in under a year, Cavar asserts themselves as an incomparable force across genres and forms. 'what does it mean when i stand naked revealing you, nothing.'"
-Fox Auslander, lead poetry editor of Alien Literary Magazine.
47 pages, Unknown Binding
First published March 1, 2022
About the author
Sarah Cavar
21 books383 followersCavar [sarah] (they/them) is the author of FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof books, 2024) and DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS (Northwestern University Press, 2026).
Cavar holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies at the University of California: Davis, and holds a B.A. in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. They teach at the University of Maine: Augusta, and are interested in the politics of queercrip / transMad knowledge production.
Cavar holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies at the University of California: Davis, and holds a B.A. in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. They teach at the University of Maine: Augusta, and are interested in the politics of queercrip / transMad knowledge production.
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January 27, 2022
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September 22, 2022
Cavar is joyfully playful with language, syntax, and space, and they’re deadly serious about it. These poems, which evoke the swirls and swerves of cris cheek, dance as much as they spell while leading us through an ontology, a journey the poet takes themselves. Out of Mind & Into Body is a brave collection and great fun to read, even as it gracefully wounds.
It’s worth noting the book is housed in handmade stitches, gold foil, and vellum, contributing to the beauty and DIY ethos of creating oneself again.
It’s worth noting the book is housed in handmade stitches, gold foil, and vellum, contributing to the beauty and DIY ethos of creating oneself again.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews