Marina Julia Neary's Bipolar Express is a pun on a popular children's story. Bipolar Express is a poetic examination of mental illness, loaded with dark self-deprecating humor and lyrical melancholy.
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By Sandy Benitez
Nov 30, 2009
Bipolar Express is a wild ride of a chapbook. Besides being a poet, Marina Julia Neary is an actress and a playwright. Because of this, the poems reflect a sense of drama and intrigue that seem to come naturally to her. Each poem will leave you wanting more while leaving a smile on your face from the humorous tones that lie beneath the dark exterior as seen in the beginning poem Interview with Mary Magdalene, "Mommy wept when she learned about the countless trips I took to the garden of Eden—Each time with a different Adam." We also witness the love and enamor she feels for her mother in the poem Lady in Yellow Chiffon, "Now I can boast to my playmates that my mother is a fairy, That gusts of Wagner at midnight are sweeter than crumb cake, that one passing glance From the Lady in Yellow Chiffon dims the love of all mortal mothers." I highly recommend this entrancing chapbook that will make you smile and frown at the same time.
