Odes to Lithium

(Alice James, $18) This form-breaking poetry collection “turns a confessional self-portrait of crisis into a chemical joyride toward self-acceptance,” said Emilia Phillips in The New York Times. Shira Erlichman, a poet with bipolar disorder, often addresses the drug that helps her function as “you” and slips into fantasy. Though following each leap can be challenging, “these stylistic upheavals reinvigorate the book’s project again and again, destigmatizing bipolar disorder through candor, intimacy, and creativity.”