Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil
Schizophrene
Bhanu Kapil
Essays,  Intergenre,  Poetry,  | $15.95
paperback, 104 pages, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9844598-6-5

A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora

Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explores trauma and place through a somatic, poetic and cross-cultural psychiatric enquiry. Who was here? Who will never be here? Who has not yet arrived and never will? Towards an arrival without being, this notebook-book return

“Poignant, rich, delicious, a book to return to again and again.” —Gail Scott

Bhanu Kapil

Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado where she teaches writing and thinking at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She also is on the faculty of Goddard College’s low-residency MFA.  She has written four full-length works of poetry/prose: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Incubation: a space for monsters, and humanimal [a project for future children], and Schizophrene.