Shapeshifters / Delani Valin.
Shapeshifters / Delani Valin.
By
:
Valin, Délani.
Publication Date
:
2022
Publication Information
:
Gibsons, B.C. : Nightwood Editions,
Physical Description
:
95 p.
Subject Term
:
Poetry.
Canadian poetry.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Indigenous peoples -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Summary
:
In Shapeshifters, Delani Valin explores the cost of finding the perfect mask. Through a lens of urban Metis 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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780889714281
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult NFic Indigenous | Adult Non-Fiction Indigenous | 819.1 V23 | Checked In |
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult NFic Indigenous | Adult Non-Fiction Indigenous | 819.1 V23 | Checked In |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay (LHV) Melville | Adult NFic Indigenous | Adult Non-Fiction Indigenous | 819.1 V23 | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic Indigenous | Adult Non-Fiction Indigenous | 819.1 V23 | Checked In |