Welcome to Litsy!

Collection of poems about bipolar disorder and the drugs people take for it. Really moving as the poet gets personal about her journey.

This was a total random read for me. I was working a “Sunday Service” at the library and running books out for curbside pickup. A kid, maybe around 20, was returning a book, just beaming about his latest read. His college professor got him interested in poetry. I asked him what book and decided to put a hold on it. I couldn‘t resist. It was a fantastic book of poems about mental illness.

These poems hurt and healed me, saw mental illness through the day to day lens of someone who has lived in its terrifying embrace. I felt so seen by these words and images. I‘ll be reading this again and again, much like I do Sylvia Plath‘s work, because it is where I feel most at home in my mind.