Madness

By Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

Book Overview

"Madness pays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated."--The New York Times

FINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

FINALIST for the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643621173
• ISBN13: 9781643621173
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"