Taking the Fifth and Running With It: A Psychological Guide for the Hard of Hearing and Blind - Softcover

Reich, Joseph D.

9781937968182: Taking the Fifth and Running With It: A Psychological Guide for the Hard of Hearing and Blind

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ISBN 10: 1937968189 ISBN 13: 9781937968182

Publisher: Broadstone Books, 2015

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Poetry. Social Criticism. This collection begins in the shadow of a shuttered asylum, but we realize quickly that the asylum of Joseph Reich's vision is very much open for business and we are the inmates! Reich is both a poet and a social worker, and while the line between those two professions has always been blurred in his work, here more directly than ever he applies his diagnostic skills to the waking, walking psychosis of life in modern-day America. But for all the social worker's insights, this is foremost the work of a poet, and as such it is all about the language, which is as frenetic and fragmented as the world Reich portrays, at times running on in breathless hallucinatory streams of consciousness, at others as staccato (and puncturing) as an Uzi. Call it gonzo, call it neo-Beat, call it a latter-day Howl—by any name, this is poetry, deftly and dramatically suited to its time.

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About the Author

Joseph D. Reich is a social worker and displaced New York City native now living in Vermont. His poetry has appeared widely in an eclectic mix of print and online literary journals both here and abroad, and has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize. His many books include The Derivation of Cowboys and Indians, The Housing Market: a comfortable place to jump off the end of the world, The Hole That Runs Through Utopia, The Defense Mechanisms: your survival guide to the fragile mind (all Fomite Press 2012, 2013, 2014), A Different Sort Of Distance (Skive Magazine Press, 2010), If I Told You To Jump Off The Brooklyn Bridge (Flutter Press, 2010), Pain Diary (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2010), and Drugstore Sushi (ThunderclapPress, 2010).

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