The Lily Pond is a memoir that explores the author's thirty-plus years of living with bipolar disorder...It chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of an illness that infiltrates thinking, feelin
“Accuracy without kindness is too unfeeling to be true. And kindness without accuracy is toounreal to be felt.”In Be With, Mike Barnes writes letters to an anonymous long-term caregiver, drawing on hi
Mike Barnes' Braille Rainbow is about perception across the sensory spectrum and the arc of learning about the world and about oneself. These poems, organized in four sections, engage first with infan