Ever told a terrible ex you would write a book about your relationship? This is that book.
Don't just burn bridges with ex-lovers, blow those bridges to pieces. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a book about falling in love with the unlovable: the arrogant, the self-centred and the narcissistic. The lovers who drain us of everything in order to quench a psychological thirst in their sadistic campaigns of self-absorption.
Through the over fifty poems, Glowinski weaves together the story of a relationship gone horribly wrong - small battles over cups of tea, full-scale wars over an afternoon leek soup.
The book speaks not only in terms of the wreckage we leave behind when love implodes, but the different ways couples communicate: through their social class, their different upbringings, their values, and their style of loving one another.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is not only the perfect weapon for the frail and victimized heart-broken, but the perfect gift to say "thank you" to the one who hurt us.
Excerpt
EXCERPT:
Title: Martha Stewart duvet cover
I wake up with a rash
from the new Martha Stewart duvet cover
I'm allergic to the sheets,
I tell you
but they're so pretty,
you respond
although I keep waking up
unrested and irritated
we keep the Martha Stewart duvet cover
because it's so damn pretty
(I haven't told you this yet)
but that's why I keep you around too
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
