Edition |
1st Perennial ed. |
Description |
ix, 299 p. ; 21 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction / Kay Redfield Jamison -- Delicious placebo / Virginia Heffernan -- Toys in the attic : an ars poetica under the influence / Chase Twichell -- Bodies in the basement : an ars poetica with attitude / Russell Banks -- One cheer for melancholy / Susanna Kaysen -- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland -- Poodle bed / Darcey Steinke -- From Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen / Larry McMurtry -- Noontime / Lauren Slater -- Fading to gray / Lee Stringer -- From Darkness visible / William Styron -- Strands / Rose Styron -- Unwelcome career / David Karp -- Melancholy and the muse / Ann Beattie -- Ghost in the house / Donald Hall -- Writing the wrongs of identity / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah -- On living behind bars / Nancy Mairs -- From Savage god / A. Alvarez -- Planet No / Lesley Dormen -- Melancholy of mine own / Joshua Wolf Shenk -- Legacy / Martha Manning -- Wish you were here / Nell Casey -- Better place to live / Maud Casey. |
Subject |
Depression, Mental.
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Authors -- Mental health.
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Added Author |
Casey, Nell, 1971-
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ISBN |
0060007826 : $13.94 |
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