Decade of the Brain

Life after a traumatic brain injury is at the heart of these poems. The speaker makes clear the othering one feels in relation to their body, brain, consciousness, treatment, and their home in an America that caters toward whiteness. Joseph asks us to contemplate our own minds and all their oddities, what it means to heal, to perceive, and gives us a reminder of how self-contained and yet interconnected we are despite our brains and perspectives