Fire Shadows: Poems
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Inscribed edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 85pp. Thin octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. Fine. Item #21233
ISBN: 0807126632
Inscribed by Gwen Head on the title page. From the rear cover- "In the fall of 1989, on the eve of her twenty-first birthday, Gwen Head's only daughter, diagnosed years earlier with bipolar disorder, voluntarily committed herself to McClean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and remained there for more than a year. Endeavoring to understand her daughter's ordeal, Head used her daughter's time in McLean as both the occasion and the subject of Fire Shadows, a dramatic exploration of illness, madness, suffering, and survival."
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