Ears Against the Ethers: poems

Initial acclaim for Ears Against the Ethers: “”…hers is a powerful voice that leaves the reader wanting more. Call her a late bloomer, but in fact she’s been saving up, and I suspect there’s a lot more where these poems came from. The book has a tip-of-the-iceberg feel to it.”” —Tom Patterson, author of St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan (Jargon Society, 1987; University of Georgia Press, 2018) In her final semester at Harvard College, poet Stephanie Stallings suffered what doctors would later call “”a florid psychotic break with reality””. She began hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, and even tasting aspects of the spirit realm, experiencing vivid “”hallucinations”” that at first left her isolated, homeless, and unable to hold a job. These poems, written over the past twenty years, detail the poet’s journey of healing, hope, and recovery from what she imagines as a rip in the veil, and what doctors call schizophrenia. A message of hope to anyone who is learning to walk between the worlds, Ears Against the Ethers is a triumphant story of healing, owning your power, and finding a way to creatively share it with others. —- ISBN: 9798872088141