Pamela Spiro Wagner
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer/artist/poet |
| Location | Connecticut, United States |
| Introduction | I have both schizophrenia and Lyme disease. Now the author of WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS: Poetry, (CavanKerry Press, 2009), (my third book is LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS, not yet published) I won First Place in the 2001/2 international BBC World Service Radio Poetry Competition. In 2005, I co-authored, with my twin sister, a psychiatrist, DIVIDED MINDS: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia (St Martin’s Press), which in 2006 won the national NAMI Outstanding Literature Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. I am also an artist, whose work is displayed here and elsewhere, right now, best viewed at my Flickr site or at my wordpress blog, pamelaspirowagner.com. In this blog I hope to recreate my old schizophrenia.com "wagblog," which was lost when that website temporarily deconstructed. It can't be done perfectly but we'll see what is possible. Schizophrenia for me has been a journey that was not expected to end well but my continuing life has validated all the shreds of hope anyone ever held out for a drowning swimmer. It has especially validated my hanging on when it felt like there was nothing left to hang on for. |
| Interests | poetry, art, writing, natural history, global warming |
| Favorite Movies | LuLu on the Bridge; Usual Suspects; The Matrix, What the Bleep Do We Know? |
| Favorite Music | Dar Williams et al; Lucy Kaplansky; Tracy Chapman, Wilkinsons, Enya, The Rankins, Silly Sisters, Short Sisters, Maire Brennan, Sarah Brightman, Dave Mallet, Gordon Bok et al, etc |
| Favorite Books | Bel Canto, The Green Child by Herbert Read, The Hermit by Ionesco; THe Runaway by Albertine Sarrazin; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver |
You get to ride the big roller coaster three times in a row. What will keep your dad from taking a bite out of your candy apple?
Whatchoo gonna do when they come for you?