MONTREAL POETRY READING: Madelaine Caritas Longman - The Danger Model

Librairie Bertrand, 430 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC
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Madelaine Caritas Longman will read from her latest poetry collection, The Danger Model, at Librarie Bertrand in Montreal. Madelaine Caritas Longman is a PhD candidate in interdisciplinary humanities at Concordia University. This is her first book.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Inhabiting contexts as diverse as the medical system, performance art, queer adolescence, and Talmudic debate, The Danger Model considers what it means to be a "self." Searching for answers in Internet forums, the work of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and the films and installations of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, Longman brings attention to the lived experience of mental and physical illness and attempts to make meaning out of it. Disarmingly candid, intellectually rigorous, and surprisingly funny, these poems explore the luxury and burden of subjectivity by showing us what it is like to struggle to attach oneself to the world through specific desires and needs.