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Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award, the 2008 Lampman Scott Award and the 2008 ReLit Awards Imagining the lives of nineteenth-century women asylum patients, Nadine McInnis charts her descent into, and recovery from, depression. In the afterword to Two Hemispheres, McInnis describes her first encounter with the remarkable photographs that illustrate this moving volume. Patients of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, these women's names and stories are lost to history. McInnis imagines their experiences of mental illness as she explores her own journey through clinical depression, and finds in these haunting photographs solace and community. I used to embellish an impressive picture of the woman whose palms I mysteriously possess, describing her right down to her mismatched shoes: her gait, stiff and shuffling, from nights spent sleeping under the bridge near the off-ramp, her hair, a tangled nest of leaves and dead grass. -- from'Entertainment: a dramatic spectacle''In the medical world, the body is often described metaphorically as a machine. Physician-poet William Carlos Williams invoked a similar metaphor when he noted that a poem is a machine made of words. What intrigues m

Author

Nadine McInnis

Publisher

London, Ont.: Brick Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781894078597

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities