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Orange Tulips

by Joan Barasovska
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Advance Praise for Orange Tulips: In Orange Tulips, Joan Barasovska explores the perilous territory where, as a young woman, she was “neither dead nor safe.” We follow her out onto the ledges and lethal precipices of her own mind, then into locked psychiatric wards, where she battles a “death sentence [that] glares from both sides” of her family tree. In the halls of madness, she finds herself writing down the “accidental poetry/of overheard hallucinations.” These are brave poems, unflinching in their examination of a period of near self-destruction in the poet’s life. These are also poems that relish “the ecstatic lift/of strength and artifice” that poetry-making contributes to the difficult work of becoming who we are. A triumphant Barasovska emerges in these pages, enjoining us to “Admire me in my bikini on the high dive / blindfolded and in love at the same time.”

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