Differential Diagnosis
Autor Cavaren Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2026
Drawing from queer, trans, disabled, and Mad poetic traditions, Differential Diagnosis 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.
At once jarring and joyful, Differential Diagnosis 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798899480058
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
CAVAR is the author of the novel Failure to Comply and editor in chief of manywor(l)ds. Their work can be found in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Cavar holds a PhD in cultural studies from the University of California, Davis.
Cuprins
Differential Diagnosis (I)
Ooooooo provider
Automythology (I)
a small something (I)
Differential Diagnosis (II)
Self-portrait as a sour jar of pickles buried deep beneath the earth
Confessional (Scene I)
Differential Diagnosis (III)
Elephants think they are the size of dogs
wet mistress (Automythology 1.5)
Differential Diagnosis (IV)
Director’s Cut
The Ways of the Monster
When I taste blood
Confessional (Scene II)
Half-Formed Girl Narrative
Automythology (II)
Differential Diagnosis (V)
Mise en scène
Princess Narrative
Differential Diagnosis (VI)
Differential Diagnosis (VII) (Haze Edition)
Death Practice
Diagnostician’s Note
Substitution Poem
Confessional (Scene III)
Differential Diagnosis (VIII)
Changeling Narrative
Prey Animal
I write you from the hollow
Have you seen my autism?
Differential Diagnosis (IX) (Interview with a Vampire)
Differential Diagnosis (X) (trans ED)
My First Crime
Envy Narrative
impediment litany
Differential Diagnosis (XI)
Emails from the Monster
a small something (II)
Alice Narrative
[Name*] confesses a passing fancy
You are holy, your [Name*] is holy, etc.
am so sorry: (an essay on )
in a dream | m | asks if i believe in mercy
Interrupted Girl Narrative
Differential Diagnosis XII
Self-Narrative (as tragedy po e rn)
Differential Diagnosis XIII
Running
Differential Diagnosis XIV
Come, my beloved
Endpoem
Scraps
After ward
Acknowledgments
Ooooooo provider
Automythology (I)
a small something (I)
Differential Diagnosis (II)
Self-portrait as a sour jar of pickles buried deep beneath the earth
Confessional (Scene I)
Differential Diagnosis (III)
Elephants think they are the size of dogs
wet mistress (Automythology 1.5)
Differential Diagnosis (IV)
Director’s Cut
The Ways of the Monster
When I taste blood
Confessional (Scene II)
Half-Formed Girl Narrative
Automythology (II)
Differential Diagnosis (V)
Mise en scène
Princess Narrative
Differential Diagnosis (VI)
Differential Diagnosis (VII) (Haze Edition)
Death Practice
Diagnostician’s Note
Substitution Poem
Confessional (Scene III)
Differential Diagnosis (VIII)
Changeling Narrative
Prey Animal
I write you from the hollow
Have you seen my autism?
Differential Diagnosis (IX) (Interview with a Vampire)
Differential Diagnosis (X) (trans ED)
My First Crime
Envy Narrative
impediment litany
Differential Diagnosis (XI)
Emails from the Monster
a small something (II)
Alice Narrative
[Name*] confesses a passing fancy
You are holy, your [Name*] is holy, etc.
am so sorry: (an essay on )
in a dream | m | asks if i believe in mercy
Interrupted Girl Narrative
Differential Diagnosis XII
Self-Narrative (as tragedy po e rn)
Differential Diagnosis XIII
Running
Differential Diagnosis XIV
Come, my beloved
Endpoem
Scraps
After ward
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“TransMad automythology, diagnostic of refusal, animal / bodymind of hunger grief play—Differential Diagnosis asks why peer precisely at what can’t be measured. Whether internal organ or fridge door, Cavar is gracious, opens and langues what’s inside: a whole of holes, the riddled disease, all that can be / is, and lives.”—Crystal Odelle, author of Trans Studies
“Reveling in poetry’s tendency toward ‘bloat’ and excess and not-yet-normalized syntax, this propulsive debut collection showcases and delights in the poet’s mad wit. Through Cavar’s serious humor and playful theorizing and clever attempts to ‘outwit’ Gender, psychopower, and ‘commonsense,’ Differential Diagnosis offers all of us who sense that we were “born in the wrong episteme” strategies for making and making ‘where the nameless live.’” —Cameron Awkward-Rich, author of An Optimism
“Reveling in poetry’s tendency toward ‘bloat’ and excess and not-yet-normalized syntax, this propulsive debut collection showcases and delights in the poet’s mad wit. Through Cavar’s serious humor and playful theorizing and clever attempts to ‘outwit’ Gender, psychopower, and ‘commonsense,’ Differential Diagnosis offers all of us who sense that we were “born in the wrong episteme” strategies for making and making ‘where the nameless live.’” —Cameron Awkward-Rich, author of An Optimism