How Madness is Unmade

By Elle Z

How Madness is unmade traces the quiet, cumulative education of a child raised inside emotional volatility, where affection arrives like weather, and survival becomes habit before it becomes language. Moving from childhood to early motherhood, these poems examine caretaking, self-erasure, and the slow unlearning of chaos mislabeled as love.

Refusing neat conclusions or redemptive arcs, this collection sits in the long aftermath of harm: the vigilance, the productivity, the waiting, and the decision (made again and again) to choose consistency over intensity.

These poems are not about forgiveness. They are about noticing. And about the ordinary, radical act of staying.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1764574109
• ISBN13: 9781764574105
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Elle Z
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"