Nisha Patel, Not a Disorder

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Part critique of authority, part erasure poetry, part confessional lyric, part experimental chap, part visual poetics, part diary, part kick me under the table all you want, I won’t shut up—this fierce chapbook of poems from Edmonton’s 8th Poet Laureate, Nisha Patel, comes together and hits ya right in the guts. In Not a Disorder, Patel reads and writes through the DSM to interrogate the systems that pathologize mental illness with strength, beauty, and a wicked sense of humour.

Printed in a run of one-hundred-and-fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto. Cover designed by Nisha Patel, chapbook typeset by Kate Siklosi.

Part critique of authority, part erasure poetry, part confessional lyric, part experimental chap, part visual poetics, part diary, part kick me under the table all you want, I won’t shut up—this fierce chapbook of poems from Edmonton’s 8th Poet Laureate, Nisha Patel, comes together and hits ya right in the guts. In Not a Disorder, Patel reads and writes through the DSM to interrogate the systems that pathologize mental illness with strength, beauty, and a wicked sense of humour.

Printed in a run of one-hundred-and-fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto. Cover designed by Nisha Patel, chapbook typeset by Kate Siklosi.