Madness

"Madness pays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated."--The New York TimesFINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Set in a speculative present, Madness alternates between poetry and editorial commentary to investigate how language spans a life.Madness is a selected poems for a fictional poet: Luis Montes-Torres, a gay Cuban exile who makes a minor name for himself in the world of poetry before the contours of his ordinary life become overwhelming, stilted, and impossible. This is a story of the unpredictable wavering between anxiety and attachment, between the political and the personal, that accompanies any American life marked by difference. Madness is a study in how pleasure, crisis, wonder, disappointment, love, and fantasy are written into our forms for living.Author: Gabriel Ojeda-SaguePublisher: Nightboat BooksPublished: 03/15/2022Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781643