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Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of poetry! The poems of THE APHASIA CAF? write the lives of individuals who, because of stroke or dementia, have lost all or part of their ability to use language, exploring what happens to self when language, the tool we use to construct who we are, suddenly fractures along one of its many fault lines. Sections of APHASIA CAF? also explore language and self-identity ...

Poetry. In this new collection by the award-winning poet and neurologist Dawn McGuire, the American Dream is an ironic construct at the end of Empire. Here, returning soldiers bring "hazardous materials" home in their bodies and minds, while home is increasingly a battleground of addiction and disaffection. In "Limbics, " the book's middle section, the neurological "old brain" speaks. Jealousy, rage, and anxious intuition overwhelm all reason,...