Shapeshifters / Délani Valin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valin, Délani, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, [2022]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

I

Starbucks

Barbie

Michelin Man

Mrs. Clean

Ronald

The Seal

Betty Crocker

The Giantess

The Essential

The Dryad

The Shapeshifter

i. Peter Parker

ii. Lazarus

iii. Dr. Manhattan

The Geologist

II

Dear Gregor Samsa

No Buffalos

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

What Are the Ethics of Picking a Stinging Plant?

Terrarium

Telogen Effluvium

Centre gather

Strand

Method

End gather

Tacit

Hunger

Teeth

Hypochondria

Wellness

Hymn

Diagnostic Criteria 299.00

A

B

C

D

E

Cartilage

Magic Lessons

I. Time Travel

II. Potions

III. Divination

IV. Spellwork

V. Flight

VI. Mending

Here's What Happened

Storytelling

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Valin, Délani Shapeshifters

ISBN:

9780889714298

OCLC:

1350417912