Manic Poise

About the Book

Most of these poems were written during a period of mania around the time of the two-year anniversary of the psychotic break I had in which I shot myself in the back. There are many thematic elements in these poems, which are very metaphorical and open to interpretation.

About the Author

She is a disabled Marine Corps and Navy veteran and is a paranoid schizophrenic. She's had three major psychotic breaks, in which she went missing for two days and ended up on the opposite side of the country, one where she tried to shoot herself in the back, and then one when she succeeded. She's been a paraplegic since age 26 and uses metaphorical poetry as a way to express the many different thoughts that go though her delusional head every day.