The autistic Alice / Joanne Limburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Limburg, Joanne, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

There are two acts of recovery in this book - one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice. In its title-sequence she uses Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass to explore her own experiences as a girl and young woman. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's, she often identified with Alice, a logical and curious child adrift in an arbitrary world. Collaging lines and phrases drawn from the two Alice books, she creates a disturbingly effective language to express the nature, discomfort and alienation of autistic experiences. In her neurodiverse verse, a text can become a rabbit-hole to another world, or a mirror. The poems that make up the book's opening sequence. The Oxygen Man, originally published as a pamphlet, were written in response to the death of Limburg's younger brother, a brilliant chemist who took his own life in 2008. They follow her as she visits the mid-Western town where he lived, worked and died; range back over their shared childhood; and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Oxygen Man

Sister 10

Brother 11

Chaim 12

Welcome to the United States 13

From the Best Western 14

Your Lawn 15

Sylar and Elle 16

Double Act 18

Night Flight 19

Notes to an Unwritten Eulogy 21

Oxygen Man 23

Blue-eyed Boy 24

The Door 25

Proverbs 6:5-11 26

Not 27

On Holiday with Cotard 28

An Offering 29

The Young Dead Poets 30

The Autistic Alice

Alice's Un-Birthday 32

Alice in Check 33

Alice in Reception Class 34

Big Alice 35

Alice's Walk 36

In the Garden of Live Flowers 37

Nothing but a Pack of Cards 38

Alice Between 39

Alice's Face 40

Advice for Alice 41

Tiny Alice 42

Alice's Brother 43

Alice's It 44

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party 46

Alice's Laws of Interaction 48

The Alice Case 49

Alice's Antism 51

Alice and the Red Queen 52

Alice's Checklist 54

Queen Alice 55

The Annotated Alice 56

Other Poems

The Bus Riders' Creed 58

You're Not My Dad, John Inman 59

Hospital Psalm 60

Mammogram 61

Kaddish for Amy 62

The Loft Day 63

Swifts 64

A Run Round All Souls 65

Pretend to be Celia Johnson 66

Your Words 67

The View from Crieff 69

Dem Bones 70.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781780373430

1780373430

OCLC:

962007196

Publisher Number:

99976134150