Rose Knapp – författare

This collection is reborn and unearthed, curated from my archives of poetry I created primarily during intensely chaotic, psychotic periods of time while living in Los Angeles as a closeted trans nonbinary person. During this period I was generally deeply unhappy and depressed with my life and attempted suicide many times, unsuccessfully. Now, in 2023, I can finally look back and say I am thankful I didn’t succeed. However, these poems are primarily not confessional poems, but often highly abstract, incoherent, illogical, and first and foremost, Dadaist poems. They defy linear and rational thought. One aspect of psychosis I find interesting and in my work from this time period is florid word salad. Clanging words’ sounds together rather than meaning, creating neologisms, alliteration, and loose associations. I’m sure the drugs didn’t help my psychosis, and now that I’m sober and heavily medicated, the psychosis will still be there, but it’s controlled compared to during this period.

Renaissance Discothèque is a chaotic, Neo-Dadaist collection, yet it is also a synchronized blending of the abstract, the mythological, and the every day. It was written almost entirely on psychedelics and dissociatives in Los Angeles, and the writing reflects the expanded openness, and embrace of the world of psychedelics and the alien, other worldliness of dissociatives. There are also explorations of mental illness, transness, and race. When not on various drugs I was often floridly psychotic during the writing of Renaissance, and so these poems are heavily influenced by the fragmentation of the linear, rational mind when psychotic. This collection also holds often aggressively masculine energy that, since transitioning to a woman, I have shied away from.

Hybrid, micro, and prose poetry exploring the intersection and borders separating logic, politics, confessional storytelling, historiography, and mysticism from the framing of a questioning gender fluid woman in New York City.

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