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Meniscus
Shane Neilson
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Description for Meniscus
Paperback. This is Shane Neilson's manic statement, arching backwards through his personal histories and into the current scale of illness. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
In the middle of his life, Robert Lowell wrote "Memories of West Street and Lepke," a poem that reflected on Lowell's recurrent manias and included the lines "My manic statement." This is Shane Neilson's manic statement, arching backwards through his personal histories (rural, difficult) and then into the current scale of illness: how it prophecizes and destroys. But this is not a book solely given over to a state; Neilson gives most of the book over to love, how it moves him, the disaster of chasing it, and how it settles all the accounts in his life.
In the middle of his life, Robert Lowell wrote "Memories of West Street and Lepke," a poem that reflected on Lowell's recurrent manias and included the lines "My manic statement." This is Shane Neilson's manic statement, arching backwards through his personal histories (rural, difficult) and then into the current scale of illness: how it prophecizes and destroys. But this is not a book solely given over to a state; Neilson gives most of the book over to love, how it moves him, the disaster of chasing it, and how it settles all the accounts in his life.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781897231609
SKU
V9781897231609
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Ref
99-15
About Shane Neilson
Shane Neilson: Shane Neilson is a physician whose first chapbook of poems, The Beaten-Down Elegies, was published in 2004 by Frog Hollow Press. In 2005 he edited Alden Nowlan and Illness, also with Frog Hollow. Subsequently, he has written a memoir, Call Me Doctor (Pottersfield Press, 2006), and Exterminate My Heart (Frog Hollow Press, 2008). His work has appeared in ... Read more
Reviews for Meniscus
"Neilson's ability to make the bipolar mind comprehensible, a place that needs to be understood, in 'Manic Statement' is perhaps the book's greatest success. It never lapses into cliche and even manages to slip in a bit of wit..."—Canadian Literature "Neilson's use of language is stark, but this off-kilter beauty is arresting...Although the territory Neilson covers in his debut tradebook ... Read more