<p><b>Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry)<br>Finalist, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award<\/b><\/p><p><i>Leaving a drawer open in here<br>is like leaving your fly undone <br>is like letting a scab hang off a healing wound.<\/i><\/p><p>In <i>Myself A Paperclip<\/i>, Finlay sketches the internal self and the external whir of the psychiatric ward, laying bare its daily rhythms. Memories, musings, echoes, and meditations on stigma coalesce: quarters dispensed into a payphone to listen to the stunned silence of a partner; Splenda packets and rice pudding hoarded in dresser drawers; counting back from ten as electrodes connect with the temple.<\/p><p>Deeply personal and reflective, <i>Myself A Paperclip<\/i> confronts abuse and experiences with debilitating mental illnesses, therapies, and hospitalizations, all shaped into the remarkable form of a serial long poem.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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