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Author_James Davis May
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contemporary poetry
depression
elegy
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fatherhood
love poems
lyric verse
marriage
masculinity
personal darkness
Pittsburgh poets
self-image
US South
Product details
- ISBN 9780807176597
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Titled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood. James Davis May's poems describe mental illness with nuance, giving a full account of the darkness but also the flashes of hope, love, and even humor that lead toward healing. In pieces ranging from spare lyrical depictions of pain to discursive meditations that argue for hope, May searches for meaning by asking the difficult but important questions that both trouble and sustain us.
