Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language produce a work of endless wonder.
Machine generated contents note: Hurdles / Dreams -- The Slow Now -- Explaining my depression to my mother a conversation -- What I told the doctor -- Self(heart)-portrait -- A story// my father moves to another country & there's no way to say I'm sorry if you aren't -- Nature Versus nurture -- Single -- The Loneliest sweet potato -- That Awkward moment -- Minnows -- Better together a Jack Johnson erasure -- Magic Trick 001 -- Untitled (i) -- Untitled (ii) -- So, I'm talking to depression ... -- Girl Beside you -- A Plain truth -- Magic Trick 002 -- Dear Beyonce (I) -- How to unfold a memory // the kentucky heartbreak shuffle -- House of cards a Radiohead erasure -- How to fold a memory -- Gravity speaks -- The other side of a memory -- On releasing light -- Magic Trick 003 -- Poem from last august California trip // yearly maintenance -- I Press shuffle & Lauryn Hill comes on ... -- Another Plain truth -- On the last gesture between us -- Poem from the moment after you left for chimwemwe -- On Platonic love being a real thing -- So my friend tells me she identifies as a mermaid ... -- Avowal -- On Keeping your damn feelings to your damn self -- Unrequited in nine acts -- Dear Beyonce (II) -- Feed a fever, starve a cold -- Poem from the beach trip -- Girl Behind you -- What I told the doctor, the second time -- Last Friday -- Seven small ways in which I loved myself this week -- Ode to sunday -- Magic Trick 004 -- It starts -- Since I Met you baby a Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears erasure -- Seconds After bumping into him on the street -- On Getting over you for real -- Magic Trick 005.
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