On Shaving Off His Face

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On Shaving Off His Face is written by Shane Neilson and published by The Porcupine's Quill. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0889848203 (ISBN 10) and 9780889848207 (ISBN 13).

The human face is many things. It is a photograph, an identity, a disguise. It is pain’s currency. It is proof of life and death. In his latest collection, On Shaving Off His Face, poet-physician Shane Neilson presents an album of faces, word portraits of maladies both physical and mental. Illness is acknowledged in the epileptic convulsions of a beloved son—and in the narrator’s pain-stricken reflection in a mirror. Psychiatry, medicine and religion are questioned, doubted, and finally accepted in terms of resistance. Famous clinicians speak alongside school shooters, depressed musicians, and a grieving father. Raw, intense and unsettling, Neilson’s poems reveal and probe the ways in which we are recognized and categorized by those who interpret the maladies written on our faces.