Clangings

by Steven Cramer

Book Overview

Schizophrenia may be characterized by a surfeit of language, a refurbishment of our used up words with musical connections every day speech and sense cannot provide. These riffs are "clangings," and Cramer imagines them into a poetic narrative that exults in both aural richness and words' power to evoke an interior landscape whose strangeness is intimate, unsteady, and stirring.

I hear the dinner plates gossip
Mom collected to a hundred.
My...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936747464
• ISBN13: 9781936747467
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"