The wings of angels : a memoir of madness / / Sandy Jeffs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814142703321
• Autore: Jeffs Sandy <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: North Melbourne, Vic., : Spinifex Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-74219-480-X; 1-74219-226-2; 1-74219-224-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (122 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.3; A821.3
• Soggetti: Schizophrenia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; AKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; Where My Nightmares Wrestled with My Dreams; Where Angels Sang; The Wings of Angels; The Untamed Dark Wood; Death by a Devouring; Standing on the Balcony; The Wrath: Eviction; The Agony Begins/The Scream; Mounting the Tumbrel; Crossing the Rogue River; At the Gate; The Prisoner; Brave New Virtual World; Adventures in Underworld; Into the Flames of the Other Side; God's Body Odour; Song of the Supermarket Sirens; The Sorrows Gather; Tinsel Paradise Lost; A Game of Cards; The Wanderer; High-Tech Technicolour Armageddon; A Landscape of the DeadThe Words of the Prophets; The Tower of Lamentation; Where Everyone is an Informer; Adrift in a Land with No Memory; A Grief-stricken Land; The Land of Weeping Women; The Broken Land; Where the Music has Fallen Silent; The Noise of the Pit; Voices in the Dark; What the Voices Say; Where the Mad are Pilloried; Lost in Cyberspace; Where My Soul is Driven Out of My Body; Where God is Only a Word; . . . and the Angels are Mad; The Dead Tell Tales; Tales of the City/New Jerusalem; Sexless in this Tormented City; A Postcard from the Edge; The Witness; Other poetry titles from Spinifex Press
• Sommario/riassunto: Plumbing the depths of human experience in her journey into madness, Sandy Jeffs shares her experience in this collection of poetry ; reminiscent of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. With stark dignity and intense fear, these poems cross into a realm where nightmares wrestle with dreams, death by devouring is a way station, and the underworld becomes a tourist destination. In the midst of this darkness, Jeffs's leavening sense of humor peoples her descent with the sirens of the supermarket, a high-tech, technicolor Armageddon, and a modern Cerberus with three heads: Ken, Barbie, and Ronald McDo