Borrowed Dress (Volume 2001) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Softcover

Colman, Cathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299175448 ISBN 13: 9780299175443

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001

Synopsis

Charles Monroe-Kane is a natural raconteur, and boy, does he have stories to tell. Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, he grew up hearing voices in his head. Over a dizzying two decades, he was many things teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler, liberation theologian, ladder-maker, squatter, halibut hanger, grifter, environmental warrior, and circus manager all the while wrestling with schizophrenia and self-medication.
From Baby Doc s Haiti to the Czech Velvet Revolution, and from sex, drugs, and a stabbing to public humiliation by the leader of the free world, Monroe-Kane burns through his twenties and several bridges of youthful idealism before finally saying: enough.
In a memoir that blends engaging charm with unflinching frankness, Monroe-Kane gives his testimony of mental illness, drug abuse, faith, and love. By the end of Lithium Jesus there may be a voice in your head, too, saying Do more, be more, live more. And fear less. "

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Vivid, thoughtful, scorching-Borrowed Dress speaks back to our impermanence, to the wistfulness of the past and the amnesia of the future, to the dual treasons of speech and silence, to the spaces between lovers, to the nothingness that keeps peeking through everything. Watch out, this passionate book flames in your hands and burns with a radiant light."-Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

About the Author:

Cathy Colman lives in Pacific Palisades, California. She has won the Browning and Ascher Montandon awards for poetry. This is her first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0299175448
• ISBN 13: 9780299175443
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64