Product Description
In the middle of his life, Robert Lowell wrote "Memories of West Street and Lepke," a poem that reflected on Lowell's recurrent manias and included the lines "My manic statement." This is Neilson's manic statement, arching backwards through his personal histories (rural, difficult) and then into the current scale of illness: how it prophecizes and destroys. But this is not a book solely given over to a state; Neilson gives most of the book over to love, how it moves him, the disaster of chasing it, and how it settles all the accounts in his life.
About the Author
Shane Neilson is a physician who first published in 2004 The Beaten-Down Elegies, a chapbook of poems with Frog Hollow Press. He then edited a selection of Alden Nowlan's poetry in 2005 called Alden Nowlan and Illness in 2005, also with Frog Hollow. He published a memoir in 2006 with Pottersfield Press called Call Me Doctor. This was followed by Exterminate My Heart with Frog Hollow in 2008. Meniscus is his first trade book of poetry.
