{"product_id":"differential-diagnosis-poems-9798899480058","title":"Differential Diagnosis: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUndoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from queer, trans, disabled, and Mad poetic traditions, \u003ci\u003eDifferential Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a deeply entangled transMad approach, investigating ways of knowing, loving, and living not legible to the normative eye. This collection challenges the architecture of institutional psychiatry and its popular \"wellness\" analogues, offering instead a counternarrative of forced institutionalization, disorderly embodiment, and transMad self-determination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once jarring and joyful, \u003ci\u003eDifferential Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates psychiatric power and locates capacities for disabled and\/or transMad resistance in the oblique, the speculative, and the \"nonsensical.\" Cavar's inventive full-length debut defamiliarizes cis, sane, abled existence through linguistic play and speculative imagery, offering Madness not only as poetic content, but also as craft technique and, ultimately, as a new way of being in the normative world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cavar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Curbstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899480058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCAVAR\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eFailure to Comply \u003c\/i\u003eand editor in chief of \u003ci\u003emanywor(l)ds\u003c\/i\u003e. Their work can be found in \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Cavar holds a PhD in cultural studies from the University of California, Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52152150327579,"sku":"9798899480058","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/img_1c1baa79-d6fd-4855-b34a-7ffde9d471af.jpg?v=1777745986","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/en-ca\/products\/differential-diagnosis-poems-9798899480058","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}