The Bearable Slant of Light

<p><strong><em>The Bearable Slant of Light</em> asks what the burden and gift of madness brings to a family to our world.</strong></p>
<p>What can we bear and what can we lift when a beloved when our world is light-struck and mad? <em>The Bearable Slant of Light</em> documents a web of clinical assessments medications the terrible beauties of delusion and the fragile gifts of darkness. Poems that reach across the history of writers and artists who fought and sometimes lost their own battles against mental illness are set against the urgencies of our anxious world and the intimate struggle of one family.</p>