There are two acts of recovery in this book one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice.In its titlesequence she uses Alice in Wonderland and Through the LookingGlass to explore her own experiences as a girl and young woman. Growing up with undiagnosed Aspergers, she often identified with Alice, a logical and curious child adrift in an arbitrary world. Collaging lines and phrases drawn from the two Alice books, she creates a disturbingly effective language to express the nature, discomfort and alienation of autistic experiences. In her neurodiverse verse, a text can become a rabbithole to another world, or a mirror.The poems that make up the books opening sequence, The Oxygen Man, originally published as a pamphlet, were written in response to the death of Limburgs younger brother, a brilliant chemist who took his own life in 2008. They follow her as she visits the midWestern town where he lived, worked and died range back over their shared childhood and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind.

Binding: Paperback;72 pages; Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd; Classification: DCF; Weight: 230 g; Dimensions: 221 x 147 x 5

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