Miss Coffin and Mrs. Blood Poems of Art and Madness

Miss Coffin and Mrs. Blood are attendants in mental institution. In and out of hospitals, a young manic-depressive artist gives us an insider's view of madness. In rough-hewn visual language, Sandy Diamond carves her journey from the abyss -- broken back, shattered memory, paper shoes -- to the artist thirty years later "walking on air". The way is studded with hunchbacks and painters, lovers and healers, a catatonic, a medicine man's baby.Diamond, Sandy is the author of 'Miss Coffin and Mrs. Blood Poems of Art and Madness' with ISBN 9780887391040 and ISBN 0887391044.