Schizophrene

A 2011 Poetry Foundation Staff Pick

A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora.

Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explores trauma and place through a somatic, poetic and cross-cultural psychiatric enquiry. Who was here? Who will never be here? Who has not yet arrived and never will? Toward...