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Biology of the Madman
Paperback
Publisher: American Poets Inc.
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Biology of a Madman, Samuel Ludke cracks open the fragile shell of the human psyche and exposes the raw nerves of existence. Through a series of haunting, visceral poems, Ludke fuses the language of science with the chaos of emotion-mapping madness like a living organism, pulsing with sorrow, obsession, memory, and decay.
Each poem is a dissection: of the body, of love, of faith, of sanity itself. Cells become prisons, neurons spark with forgotten guilt, and bones whisper truths too painful to bear. Ludke's voice is both clinical and deeply personal, offering a stark yet strangely beautiful autopsy of the human soul.
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