Addicted
Notes from the Belly of the Beast
Published on 15. March 2016
272 pages
978-1-77164-187-6 (ISBN)
Description
Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addiction can have devastating consequences, often shattering lives, sundering families, causing impoverishment, and even triggering suicide. Yet it can also be a source of inspiration. In these frank essays, leading American and Canadian writers explore their surprisingly diverse personal experiences with this complex phenomenon, candidly recounting what happened when alcohol, heroin, smoking, food, gambling, or sex - sometimes in combination - took over their lives.
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Greystone Books,Canada
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Lorna Crozier's award-winning books of poetry include The Blue Hour of the Day and Inventing the Hawk. She is also the author of the memoir Small Beneath the Sky and the editor of several anthologies. Patrick Lane is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, as well as the best-selling memoir What the Stones Remember, about emerging from a lifetime of addiction. Both live in Saanichton, BC.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Counting the Bones (Patrick Lane)
- My Father, Myself (Marnie Woodrow)
- Grand Thefts (Tom Bissell)
- Junkie Grows Up (Molly Jong-Fast)
- An Open Letter to Laura (Lois Simmie)
- How to Quit Smoking in Fifty Years or Less (Peter Gzowski)
- More and More (Evelyn Lau)
- Breathing Under Ice (Lorna Crozier)
- The Edge of Doom (Susan Cheever)
- Lost in a Cosmic Smoke Show (Elianna Lev)
- Drinking (David Adams Richards)
- Blackout (Sheri-D Wilson)
- Molested Child, So-Called Sexual Savage (lessLIE)
- Not Swimming, But Drowning (John Newlove)
- One More Last Chance (Rick Whitaker)
- Junkie (Stephen Reid)
- Afterword
- About the Contributors
