Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare

by Lola Haskins

Asylum presents the kind of journey John Clare might have taken in 1841 if, when he escaped the madhouse, he'd been traveling in his head rather than on his feet. Lola Haskins starts out with as little sense of direction as Clare had, and yet, after wandering all over the map, she too finally reaches her destination. The four sections in this book are where she rests for the night. The first looks tenderly at the cycle of human life. The second...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965801
• ISBN13: 9780822965800
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 7.8"