Differential diagnosis : poems / Cavar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavar, Author.

Standardized Title:

Differential diagnosis (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/33e21660-e7c3-ce3a-8ca8-5726a5faee4c

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 75 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Undoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collection"-- Provided by publisher.

"Undoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collection. Drawing from queer, trans, disabled, and Mad poetic traditions, Differential Diagnosis introduces a deeply entangled transMad approach, investigating ways of knowing, loving, and living not legible to the normative eye. This collection challenges the architecture of institutional psychiatry and its popular "wellness" analogues, offering instead a counternarrative of forced institutionalization, disorderly embodiment, and transMad self-determination. At once jarring and joyful, Differential Diagnosis interrogates psychiatric power and locates capacities for disabled and/or transMad resistance in the oblique, the speculative, and the "nonsensical." Cavar's inventive full-length debut defamiliarizes cis, sane, abled existence through linguistic play and speculative imagery, offering Madness not only as poetic content, but also as craft technique and, ultimately, as a new way of being in the normative world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Differential Diagnosis (I)

Ooooooo provider

Automythology (I)

a small something (I)

Differential Diagnosis (II)

Self-portrait as a sour jar of pickles buried deep beneath the earth

Confessional (Scene I)

Differential Diagnosis (III)

Elephants think they are the size of dogs

wet mistress (Automythology 1.5)

Differential Diagnosis (IV)

Director's Cut

The Ways of the Monster

When I taste blood

Confessional (Scene II)

Half-Formed Girl Narrative

Automythology (II)

Differential Diagnosis (V)

Mise en scène

Princess Narrative

Differential Diagnosis (VI)

Differential Diagnosis (VII) (Haze Edition)

Death Practice

Diagnostician's Note

Substitution Poem

Confessional (Scene III)

Differential Diagnosis (VIII)

Changeling Narrative

Prey Animal

I write you from the hollow

Have you seen my autism?

Differential Diagnosis (IX) (Interview with a Vampire)

Differential Diagnosis (X) (trans ED)

My First Crime

Envy Narrative

impediment litany

Differential Diagnosis (XI)

Emails from the Monster

a small something (II)

Alice Narrative

[Name*] confesses a passing fancy

You are holy, your [Name*] is holy, etc.

am so sorry: (an essay on )

in a dream-m-asks if i believe in mercy

Interrupted Girl Narrative

Differential Diagnosis XII

Self-Narrative (as tragedy po e rn)

Differential Diagnosis XIII

Running

Differential Diagnosis XIV

Come, my beloved

Endpoem

Scraps

After ward

Acknowledgments

ISBN:

9798899480058

OCLC:

1541906777