Understanding Madness

by Carlo Levy

Overview

Understanding Madness explores the singular moods, fears, and synaesthetic experiences of a poet from the Pacific Northwest who also suffers from schizophrenia. It includes original collages that mirror the author's poetic sensibility on the cusp between word and image, reading and seeing, understanding and hallucination. A poignant, sincere, beautiful evocation of life on the edges of the normal, the consensual, and the rational.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986210421
Publisher:	Atopon Books
Publication date:	12/05/2023
Pages:	78
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

CARLO LEVY has lived in seven different neighborhoods of Seattle, where he was born in 1961. He is the author of two books of poems: The Radio Factory and Hearing Things and Other Arts, both of which, like Understanding Madness, include original collages. In 1998 he received the first annual Nelson Bentley Award given by the editors at Fine Madness, for his poem, "The Old Music of Heraclitus." He is married to Rebecca Alexander, a painter, poet, librarian, and gardener.