BIPOLAR LEXICON: AN AKATHISIA OF EXPRESSED EMOTION
Teeming with riots, ruins, rescues, and romance, Bipolar Lexicon is one woman’s colloquy to clashing through an insensible but colorful world.
RIPENING
mother was our curves
--even her silhouettes were silver
mother could grow marigolds
in November
she was our snake charmer
(our static cling)
Written amidst the hair-trigger mania, dallying depression, and spiritual numbness both vacillating and viperous, Megan writes of sickness, fleeting but freeing good fortune, scraps of her spirit, feral observations of fragility, odes to harlots and flowers and lost loves. Lyrical, lush, frank, and fresh-voiced, Bipolar Lexicon examines the quiet, quirky beauty immeasurable around us, the untold grace of eloquence, the towering fire inside one woman's fractured yet infallible heart, and the eternal redemption of language, love, imagery, and imagination.
Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-947021-47-1
Publication Date: October 10, 2018
Teeming with riots, ruins, rescues, and romance, Bipolar Lexicon is one woman’s colloquy to clashing through an insensible but colorful world.
RIPENING
mother was our curves
--even her silhouettes were silver
mother could grow marigolds
in November
she was our snake charmer
(our static cling)
Written amidst the hair-trigger mania, dallying depression, and spiritual numbness both vacillating and viperous, Megan writes of sickness, fleeting but freeing good fortune, scraps of her spirit, feral observations of fragility, odes to harlots and flowers and lost loves. Lyrical, lush, frank, and fresh-voiced, Bipolar Lexicon examines the quiet, quirky beauty immeasurable around us, the untold grace of eloquence, the towering fire inside one woman's fractured yet infallible heart, and the eternal redemption of language, love, imagery, and imagination.
Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-947021-47-1
Publication Date: October 10, 2018
Teeming with riots, ruins, rescues, and romance, Bipolar Lexicon is one woman’s colloquy to clashing through an insensible but colorful world.
RIPENING
mother was our curves
--even her silhouettes were silver
mother could grow marigolds
in November
she was our snake charmer
(our static cling)
Written amidst the hair-trigger mania, dallying depression, and spiritual numbness both vacillating and viperous, Megan writes of sickness, fleeting but freeing good fortune, scraps of her spirit, feral observations of fragility, odes to harlots and flowers and lost loves. Lyrical, lush, frank, and fresh-voiced, Bipolar Lexicon examines the quiet, quirky beauty immeasurable around us, the untold grace of eloquence, the towering fire inside one woman's fractured yet infallible heart, and the eternal redemption of language, love, imagery, and imagination.
Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-947021-47-1
Publication Date: October 10, 2018
About MEGAN DENESE MEALOR
Megan Denese Mealor is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, spinning words into wiles since she was four years old. Her work has been published widely in numerous journals, most recently Really System, streetcake, Fowl Feathered Review, The Mystic Blue Review, The Lake, Beakful, The Metaworker, The Wax Paper, and Degenerates: Voices for Peace. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at fifteen, Megan's main mission as a writer is to inspire others stigmatized for their mental health. She is the author of a debut poetry collection, Bipolar Lexicon, with several more books on the way. Megan lives in her native land of Jacksonville, Florida, a city of neon bridges and bustling heart, with her fiance and five-year-old son in a house a little too small but also just right.
