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FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NELSON BALL PRIZE
"In a dark time," wrote Theodore Roethke, "the eye begins to see"—and with Braille Rainbow, Mike Barnes reveals both darkness and the light that shines beyond it. Beginning with a suite of poems completed before and immediately following his admission to a psychiatric unit as a young man, Barnes's quiet lyricism and formal sensitivity capture those moments of perception that remind us how to see.
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LanguageEnglish
PublisherBiblioasis
Release dateApr 23, 2019
ISBN9781771962223
Author
Mike Barnes
Mike Barnes is a music journalist and regular contributor to Mojo, The Wire and Prog. He is the author of A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s. His previous books include the acclaimed biography of Captain Beefheart.
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Braille Rainbow - Mike Barnes
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Braille
Rainbow
poems
Mike Barnes
BIBLIOASIS
WINDSOR, ONTARIO
Also by Mike Barnes
Short Story Collections
Aquarium (1999)
Contrary Angel (2004)
The Reasonable Ogre: Tales for the Sick and Well (2012)
Novels
The Syllabus (2002)
Catalogue Raisonné (2005)
The Adjustment League (2016)
Non-Fiction
The Lily Pond (2008)
Be With: Letters to a Caregiver (2018)
Poetry Collections
Calm Jazz Sea (1996)
A Thaw Foretold (2006)
Contents
Admission Suite
Admission Suite: Introduction
untitled
what if a man
self-hate
rescue attempt
new friends
fishcleaning
fruit bat
nightmare
a paltry wakefulness
failed inventory
the 1st order of genius
listen paper
untitled
Day Pass
The Check-Out King
Bill Had
My Bosses
Never the Twain
Bliss
Remedies
Crosstown
Secure Ward
Watch
The Men
Bumble Bounce Rag
Knives in High Places
Summer Suicides
Knives in High Places
Absentia
I have gained a strange disease
Drinking Frappuccinos on a Dementia Ward
Untitled
August 15 2012
Timeless
March Squirrel
Mer Verse
Our Ararat
We Are Here
Pry Bars
Hummingbird
Cell Inventory
Pry Bars
Ikebana
On Coming into Possession of a Diary
Mysteries
Let’s clear the air
So Far
Tangent: Lines by a Bed
Three Days Dry
Cold Fireflies
Heart
Counsellors
Braille Rainbow
Drowsing While Reading a Book of Chinese Poems
Nightfall
He Who Stretches His Line
Morning Glories in a Planter Brought Indoors, November
The Skin of Things
Lazy Song at Last
East Window
Hold Hands
Happiness
Alive
The Door
About the Author
Copyright
Admission Suite
Admission Suite
The thirteen poems that follow were written in the days just before, and just after, I was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, in November 1977, diagnosed with acute schizophrenia. (When I re-entered psychiatric treatment in 1990, after more than a decade avoiding it, I was told that the initial diagnosis had been incorrect, that instead I had bipolar disorder.) After this flurry
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