Have I Told You About My Superpowers - Paperback

by Luther Kissam (Author)

Whether manic "sailing with planets" or using "the rust of mars" to describe anger, emerging poet Luther Kissam V draws on the celestial, the terrestrial, and sometimes the mundane to explore mental health. These elements push and pull Kissam's deeply personal poems through chaos and calm, meditations and medications, and ultimately, to balance. For Kissam, bipolar is a gift from the moon, a gravitational force, that fuels exploration of space: mental, physical and spiritual. His poems reveal the tumult and tranquility teetering in us all, especially in those whose experience of beauty, joy, and, pain is physical, sometimes tragic, and often supernatural. Kissam's confessions of failure, triumph, and resiliency will resonate with those affected by, diagnosed with, or curious about bipolar