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Brain Is a Boundary: A Journey in Poems to the Borderlines of Lewy Body Dementia
Brain Is a Boundary: A Journey in Poems to the Borderlines of Lewy Body Dementia | Alexander Dreier
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This unique volume explores the experience of the boundaries in consciousness that permeate our lives for instance, between sleeping and waking, language and reality, life and death, lover and beloved, observer and observed. We often take such boundaries for granted. But there is one boundary that most of us are spared: the boundary between reality and delusion, sanity and madness. This little book touches upon all of these thresholds in a singular way. The author, a poet, comedian, and student of consciousness, finds himself gradually slipping from observing and noting such boundaries to crossing over from one world to another: from the world of ordinary, if enhanced, intuitive or poetic reality and perception to that of Lewy body dementia. "The Brain Is a Boundary" records his journey. These fifty-two poems along with an introduction by Arthur Zajonc, former President of the Mind-Life Institute, an afterword by Bradley Boeve, a renowned specialist in neurology, and an essay by the author recounting his Lewy body experiences in prose constitute a remarkable and unique testimony that gives voice to an aspect of human experience that is all too often mute and ignored. "
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Alexander Dreier's verse is alive with surprising juxtapositions, unexpected metaphors, and a depth that lends meaning and inspiration to his dexterous word play. He is a remarkable poet, and it is beautiful to read about how he has chosen to work with his illness to plumb its depths for whatever gifts it can yield, poetic and otherwise. #poetry #illness #LewyBodyDisease #medicine #holisticmedicine

tracyrowanreads My mother had that. It's horrible. 7y
Louise @tracyrowanreads I'm sorry to hear that. It must be terribly difficult to watch this disease progress in someone you love. 💜 7y
tracyrowanreads @Louise It's unimaginable, the more so since 20 years ago very few people knew what it was, even doctors. 7y
Louise @tracyrowanreads Heartbreaking. What a road to have to travel. 💔 (edited) 7y
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