Winner of the 2013 Grayson Books Chapbook Competition




"Curiouser & Curiouser follows up on the promise of neurology's intrigue with a deft handle on the mysteries and miracles of selfhood and identity and a straightforward, engaging style that ranges widely yet fires just the right neurons in all the right regions of the brain. It is a surprising and insightful collection."

-Brian Clements, author of Jargon, and editor of An Introduction to the Prose Poem.




"Composed of equal parts curiosity, compassion, and verve, Lynn Schmeidler's poems are searing portraits of the human mind in extremis. Excavating and envoicing rare neurological disorders, these poems evoke the alternately offbeat, poignant, droll, and terrifying circumstances of people whose perceptions are irrevocably askew-a patient whose hands take on a life of their own, another who believes her husband was replaced by a double, another who can perceive objects but not motion.This dazzling debut collection weaves its stories with language both incisive and voluptuous."

-B. K. Fischer, author of Mutiny Gallery, winner of the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize