{"product_id":"myself-a-paperclip-9781773102153","title":"Myself a Paperclip","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Triny Finlay\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry)\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeaving a drawer open in here\u003cbr\u003eis like leaving your fly undone \u003cbr\u003eis like letting a scab hang off a healing wound.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMyself A Paperclip\u003c\/i\u003e, Finlay sketches the internal self and the external whir of the psychiatric ward, laying bare its daily rhythms. Memories, musings, echoes, and meditations on stigma coalesce: quarters dispensed into a payphone to listen to the stunned silence of a partner; Splenda packets and rice pudding hoarded in dresser drawers; counting back from ten as electrodes connect with the temple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply personal and reflective, \u003ci\u003eMyself A Paperclip\u003c\/i\u003e confronts abuse and experiences with debilitating mental illnesses, therapies, and hospitalizations, all shaped into the remarkable form of a serial long poem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46289602412695,"sku":"9781773102153","price":1369.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781773102153.webp?v=1767700294","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/myself-a-paperclip-9781773102153","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}