Madness Belongs to the People
Madness Belongs to the People is a forthcoming book of poetry by Jody Chan to be released on September 22, 2026 by Brick Books. Music accompanying the book by Yang Chen will be released by people | places | records.
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About the book
With gentle fervour and precise language that speaks to the nonverbal, the gestural, the sonic, Jody Chan's third collection of poetry mobilizes the intimate, the historical, the revolutionary, and the mundane to confront the instrumentalization of disability as a surplus class. Chan's multidisciplinary poems are a lyrical account of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist psychiatric survivor- and patient-led movements, from Germany to Japan. This is an investigation of madness as resistance, in which we experience "listening as a form of touch," and the future as a change of form.