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Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression 

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Eastern Washington University Press

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 Manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, is estimated to affect as many as 6 million Americans. Researchers and popular writers alike argue that the symptoms of the disease occur with disproportionate frequency among poets and other writers, a view that has tended to reinforce the stereotype of the mad artist. But, as poet and volume editor Thom Schramm points out, the stereotype persists in part because the existing literature has for the most part neglected the intricacies of individual lives, especially as these are expressed in the poets' own voices. Living in Storms aims to bring nuance and depth to the popular imagination. The collection represents the work of some eighty different poets, including many whose work forms the bedrock of contemporary American poetry. All are individuals whose lives have been touched in some manner by manic-depressive illness. The poems, which variously depict personal struggles with mania and depression, the impact of the disease on friends and family members, and the influence it has exerted on other artists, writers, and composers, are arranged in eight sections, each representing a specific facet of the poets' shared experience. Poet David Wojahn writes in the foreword, "All the cycles, all the inexplicable euphorias, and all the self-nullifying despairs are here--but so are the brave and tentative recoveries from such states. The accomplishment of these poems is that they express, with dignity and grace, what Coleridge in his 'Dejection' ode called 'the eddying of [the] living soul.' And this is what poems are meant to do."

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