Ajar

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The poems in Ajar navigate the physical and psychological dangers of womanhood through the flattening lens of mood disorder. Psychosis isn't the opposite of reality-it's another perceptual system. If neurotypical thought measures the world in centimetres, this collection measures it in inches, gallons, amperes. Ajar celebrates radical recovery from gendered violence and psychotic paradigm shifts, approaching madness through prismatic inquiry. As time converges within us, we find new ways to heal and grow. From the emergency room to the pharmacy to the fertility clinic to the dis/comfort of home and memory, this collection humanizes bipolar psychosis.

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Margo LaPierre is a neuroqueer poet and freelance editor specializing in literary novels,historical novels, and memoirs. She isArc Poetry's newsletter editor and a member of the poetry collective VII. She won the 2021RoomPoetry Award and the 2020subTerrainFiction Award. She is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.Her second collection of poetry is forthcoming with Guernica Editions in 2025.