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Overthinking simple actions leads to overwhelming poems about what one can lean on if promised help doesn’t help


I Will Get Up Off Of is a book about trying to leave a chair. How does anyone ever leave a chair? There are so many muscles involved - so many tarot cards, coats, meds, McNuggets, and memes. In this book, poems are attempts and failures at movement as the speaker navigates her anxiety and depression in whatever way she can, looking for hope from social workers on Zoom, wellness influencers, and psychics alike. Eventually, the poems explode in frustration, splintering into various art forms as attempts at expression become more and more desperate. What is there to lean on when avenues promising help don’t help? I Will Get Up Off Of explores the role art plays in survival and the hope that underlies any creative impulse.


"The voice of these poems moves like a magical fish trapped in a small squ

I Will Get Up Off Of

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    Publisher: Coach House Books
    Publication Date: 1/15/2024
    ISBN13: 9781552454817, 978-1552454817
    ISBN10: 1552454819

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    Overthinking simple actions leads to overwhelming poems about what one can lean on if promised help doesn’t help


    I Will Get Up Off Of is a book about trying to leave a chair. How does anyone ever leave a chair? There are so many muscles involved - so many tarot cards, coats, meds, McNuggets, and memes. In this book, poems are attempts and failures at movement as the speaker navigates her anxiety and depression in whatever way she can, looking for hope from social workers on Zoom, wellness influencers, and psychics alike. Eventually, the poems explode in frustration, splintering into various art forms as attempts at expression become more and more desperate. What is there to lean on when avenues promising help don’t help? I Will Get Up Off Of explores the role art plays in survival and the hope that underlies any creative impulse.


    "The voice of these poems moves like a magical fish trapped in a small squ

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