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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 03/15/2022
ISBN: 9781643621173
Pages: 152