LNU Chapbooks
"SPLIT" is Banks' third chapbook of poems that details his journey through madness, grief and spiritual harm. Weaving together themes from his previous chapbooks, "Call me ill" and "Left", surviving the psyche ward, resisting ableism and internalized ableism, surviving service agencies, church, and psyche institutions. "Split" talks about what happens to the bodymind when moving through loss, trauma, and illness.
cw: medical trauma, dysphoria, medical abuse, psychiatric industrial complex, ableism
A chapbook examining the process of leaving, abandonment, and accessibility. From relationships that have gone left, places left behind, and being left; LEFT tells a raw story of deciding to leave and the journey that follows.
cw: medical trauma, psychiatric harm, racism, ableism.
A chapbook of poems following t. through his search for relief from a mental wellness crisis. Call me ill follows t from the waiting room to coming home after his 8th inpatient stay. This is his first chapbook.
cw: medical trauma, dysphoria, medical abuse, psychiatric industrial complex, self-harm, ableism