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Depression & other magic tricks

Benaim, Sabrina (author.).

Summary: The debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Sabrina Benaim is a writer, performance & teaching artist whose home base is Toronto. She was a member of the championship-winning 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam.

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  • ISBN: 9781943735204
  • ISBN: 1943735204
  • Physical Description: print
    75 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: First date -- Hurdles/dreams -- The slow now -- Explaining my depression to my mother: a conversation -- What I told the doctor -- Self(heart)-portrait -- A story // my father moves to another country & there's no way to say I'm sorry you aren't -- Nature versus nurture -- Single -- Loneliest sweet potato -- That awkward moment -- Minnows -- Better together: a Jack Johnson erasure -- Magic trick 001 -- Untitled (i) -- Untitled (ii) -- So, I'm talking to depression... -- Girl beside you -- A plain truth -- Magic trick 002 -- Dear Beyoncé (I) -- How to unfold a memory // the kentucky heartbreak shuffle -- House of cards: a Radiohead erasure -- How to fold a memory -- Gravity speaks -- The other side of a memory -- On releasing light -- Magic trick 003 -- Poem from last August California trip // yearly maintenance -- I press shuffle & Lauryn Hill comes on... -- Another plain truth -- On the last gesture between us -- Poem from the moment after you for for Chimwemwe -- On platonic love being a real thing -- So my friend tells me she identifies as a mermaid... -- Avowal -- On keeping your damn feelings to your damn self -- Unrequited in nine acts -- Dear Beyoncé (II) -- Feed a fever, starve a cold -- Poem from the beach trip -- Girl behind you -- What I told the doctor, the second time -- Last Friday -- Seven small ways in which I loved myself this week -- Ode to Sunday -- Magic trick 004 -- It starts -- Since I met you baby: a Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears erasure -- Seconds after bumping into him on the street -- On getting over you for real -- Magic trick 005 -- Follow-up: a prayer/a spell.
Subject: Depression, Mental -- Poetry
Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry
Grief -- Poetry
Poetry -- Canadian
Canadian poetry -- Women authors
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
Genre: Canadian poetry.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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