A Failure of Flight is a remarkable collection of poetry by a remarkably adept poet. The collection is structured in two parts. The first part, Missing the Net, assembles a group of poems based on a child-like witnessing of everyday life and weaves a vision of experience which is both unflinchingly honest and strangely beautiful. The second part of the collection, Set the Pull of Gravity, explores and expands the themes and experiences of the first part in a re-creation and re-imagining of...

Is it bipolar or mind control? The people around me, including doctors, say it's bipolar. I say it's mind control. For ten years, I have dealt with this problem.Talking to myself to get through problems has been my strategy and has been forced upon me since 2009. This new world filled with psych wards, the mentally ill, and surveillance is something others are going through. I relied on routine.