Belated Bris of the Brainsick Product Form:Paperback / softback John MacKenzie is another poet

John MacKenzie is another poet I've been reading for years

but as a complex and fully realized verbal world

quick-witted poems resonate with the energy of their making

Prize(s): Winner Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize (1997)

Belated Bris of the Brainsick Product Form:Paperback / softback John MacKenzie is another poetDescription Belated Bris of the Brainsick traces 1) a belated and in some ways violent revelation about ones ancestry and ones past, 2) a resultant mental breakdown and 3) the pursuit of a new life with someone else who lives with mental illness. These events and the styles in which they are told are inflected by queer, transgender and disabled perspectives and aesthetics. If there is a narrative arc to the collection, it is not the usual one of