In Life There Are Many Things
Wainger, Lucy
Black River Chapbook Competition winner, Lucy Wainger, is a portrait of adolescent mental illness at the end of history.
IN LIFE THERE ARE MANY THINGS is a portrait of adolescent mental illness after the end of history: "I have / this body- / residue-and I don't know what / left it." This chapbook's unmoored speakers seek, alternately, to root themselves more firmly in the world and to exit it entirely. Autobiography and allegory merge to tr...