art begins in a wound

Heads up.

April 25, 2015 by Angelico Nguyen at 12:00 am

Illustrated by the supremely grim, superlatively talented Julia Gfrörer *
Due September 2015 from Zest Books
Blurb:

The lives of the saints are filled with inspiring, life-changing moments—but the deaths of the martyrs are where you’ll find the real “Oh, hell no!” moments of history. This adult (very adult, as the body count will quickly indicate) coloring book gives aspiring crayon and paper artists the chance to hone their craft while also buffing up their knowledge of Catholic history and tales. The attending stories will go down pretty easy at cocktail hours as well. [Continued…]

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‘The Poems You Write Up at Night’: Compulsive Versifying

September 6, 2014 by Angelico Nguyen at 4:00 pm

‘Temporal lobe – lateral view’ by Anatomography. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1-jp via Wikimedia Commons

A few excerpts from that article ‘Compulsive Versifying after Treatment of Transient Epileptic Amnesia’ in Neurocase that everybody’s talking about:

Abstract

Compulsive production of verse is an unusual form of hypergraphia that has been reported mainly in patients with right temporal lobe seizures. We present a patient with transient epileptic amnesia and a left temporal seizure focus, who developed isolated compulsive versifying, producing multiple rhyming poems, following seizure cessation induced by lamotrigine. Functional neuroimaging studies in the healthy brain implicate left frontotemporal areas in generating novel verbal output and rhyme, while dysregulation of neocortical and limbic regions occurs in temporal lobe epilepsy. […]