Able Muse - poetry anthology https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/435/435? en A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/jeff-holt/mind-apart-poems-melancholy-madness-and-addiction? <!--paging_filter--><p>"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 and poet Mark S. Bauer considers mental disorders from multiple perspectives and challenges us to broaden our outlook.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/jeff-holt/mind-apart-poems-melancholy-madness-and-addiction?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/jeff-holt/mind-apart-poems-melancholy-madness-and-addiction?#comments Books addiction jeff holt madness mark bauer mind apart poems poems of melancholy poetry anthology poetry book v7 v9 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:01:33 +0000 Administrator 330 at https://www.ablemuse.com Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/jeff-holt/sonnets-150-contemporary-sonnets? <!--paging_filter--><p>The Sonnet is one of the distinguishing cultural markers of western civilization. Throughout our literary past, the sonnet has been used by our greatest poets--from Petrarch and Shakespeare to Borges and Auden. Now, in the twenty-first century, after a period of general dismissal in the latter decades of the twentieth century, the sonnet is in the midst of an extraordinary revival and has once again returned to the center of the literary landscape.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/jeff-holt/sonnets-150-contemporary-sonnets?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/jeff-holt/sonnets-150-contemporary-sonnets?#comments Books contemporary sonnets jeff holt poems poetry anthology poetry book v7 v9 william baer Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:44:58 +0000 Administrator 329 at https://www.ablemuse.com