Out of the Crazywoods
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-1903-9 (ISBN)
Out of the Crazywoods is the riveting and insightful story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau’s late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Without sensationalizing, she takes the reader inside the experience of a rapid-cycling variant of the disorder, providing a lens through which to understand it and a road map for navigating the illness. The structure of her story—impressionistic, fragmented—is an embodiment of the bipolar experience and a way of perceiving the world.
Out of the Crazywoods takes the reader into the euphoria of mania as well as its ugly, agitated rage and into “the lying down of desire” that is depression. Savageau articulates the joy of being consort to a god and the terror of being chased by witchcraft, the sound of voices that are always chattering in your head, the smell of wet ashes that invades your home, the perception that people are moving in slow motion and that death lurks at every turnpike, and the feeling of being loved by the universe and despised by everyone you’ve ever known.
Central to the journey in Out of the Crazywoods is the sensitive child who becomes a poet and the writer who finds clarity in her art and a reason to heal in her grandchildren. Savageau’s journey reveals the stigma and the social, personal, and economic consequences of the illness but reminds us that the disease is not the person. Grounded in Abenaki culture, Savageau questions cultural definitions of madness and charts a path to recovery through a combination of medications, psychotherapy, and ceremony.
Cheryl Savageau teaches at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is the author of the poetry collections Home Country, Dirt Road Home, and Mother/Land. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation.
About This Book
Bagw and Tekw
Under the Crib
The Pivot Point
Learning to Speak
What It Is
Age Three—The Witch in the Bag
Angels
Diagnosis
Dirt
She’s Not Heavy, She’s My Sister
The Tarot
Tiger Butter
LOOK
Age Seven—The Body Book
Poppies
At the Welfare Office
Exuberance
Shopping
Crazy Lady in Grad School
In Fourth Grade
What’s Happening?
Jungle Road
Blackouts
Voices
The Bad Mother
Exceptional Children
The Twirling Skirt
Crazy Talk I
The Death Turnpike
Life in the Fast Lane: Am I Paranoid, or Are They Really Out to Get Me?
Meds
Arthur Lloyd
shades
The Bra Thing
I Am in Love with Rita Moreno
Crazy Talk II
Beautiful Doll
The Ugly Year
Krishna, My Love
Poetry for Breakfast
Cribbage
Teaching Castaneda
Losing Them
Meditation—The Barren Road
The Taster
Horse Dream I
Wretched
Baby
Sunday Afternoon with Betty Grable
Islands of Sanity: Poetry
My Bookstore
The New House at Center Harbor
When You Can’t Keep a Job
Denied
Islands of Sanity: Grandsonso
Crazy Talk III
Getting Fat on Antidepressants
To Whom It May Concern:
Memere Stories: Sing á Memere
Sunday Dinners
Pookie
Peach Cobbler
Falling in Love with Diane
Talk Doc: Julie
Grand Poobah
Land of Enchantment I
Stories and Storms
New York in Albuquerque
Leaving
The Witch at the Wake
Land of Enchantment II
China Doll
My Special One
After Dropping Acid on a School Night
Yeats
You Bet Your Life
Crazy Talk: Lonely
Eating Worms I
My Mother’s Side
Ceremony
Falling into Grace
A Paycheck Away
Seven Mice
Christmas with Tarot Cards
Geraniums
Citizens for Citizens
Wet Ashes
The Eighth Mouse
Good morning:
Memere Stories: Paint
Not Connect: Abilify Mania
Piano
Memere Stories: Talking
Talk Doc: Karen
Listenings
Giving Myself to Beauty
The Green Quilt
Memere Stories: Howling
Eating Worms II
Greeley Park, Nashua—The Tree
Maura’s Bag
Talk Doc: The Real Work
Relearning the Habits of Childhood
Crying for Real
Horse Dream II
Math Games
Meditation—Fern
Ambien: The Butterfly, Lock, and Key
SAD
Nearly Normal
Memere Stories: Baseball
Stigma
What It Is For
Happy
Alnôbawôgan
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.04.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Indian Lives |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-1903-1 / 1496219031 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-1903-9 / 9781496219039 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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