Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain On Fire, conveys her journey and struggle through a detrimental disease, in which she loses significant aspects of her core identity. The memoir exemplifies the theme that loss of identity yields self discovery, concentrating primarily on how her experiences shaped the progression of her life before and after her disease. When creating the found poem, I wanted to focus the ideas around Susannah’s struggle for her identity. I utilized repetition with the phrase, “Who am I?” to signify an emphasis on personality loss, which encompasses varying connotations and moods in the different verses. In the beginning of the poem before the disease, I included words with positive overtones, such as “vivacious” and “spark”
