Name: Shapeshifters
SKU: 54607604
Price: 21.60 EUR
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Author: Valin, Délani
ISBN: 9780889714281

Type

Physical Book

Author

Délani Valin

Publisher

Nightwood Editions

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6x14.2x4.1 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9780889714281

Synopsis "Shapeshifters "

Inspired by her experience as a neurodivergent Indigenous woman, Délani Valin's poems explore the concept of authenticity by experimenting with identities and personas in this kaleidoscopic debut.In Shapeshifters, Délani Valin explores the cost of finding the perfect mask. Through a lens of urban Métis experience and neurodivergence, Valin takes on a series of personas as an act of empathy as resistance. Some personas are capitalist mascots like the Starbucks siren, Barbie and the Michelin Man, who confide the hopes and frustrations that lay hidden behind their relentless public enthusiasm. Others include psychiatric diagnoses like hypochondria, autism and depression, and unlikely archetypes such as a woman who becomes a land mass by ending the quest to shrink herself. In more confessional poems, the pressure to find relief from otherness often leads to magical thinking: portals, flight, telepathy and incantations all become metaphors for survival. Shapeshifters maps ways in which an individual can attempt to fit into a world that is inhospitable to them, and makes a case to shift the shape of that world.

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