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Coconut : poems

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  • Author: Patel, Nisha
    Date:
    Created
    2021
    Summary:

    Coconut is an exploration of my place in the universe as told through stories of the author's experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love. It tells girls like her that their origins live within themselves, and that their stories of the mundane and profound alike make up who they are. The book is written in an unrestricted confessional style, confronting notions of propriety and form, to touch on themes that matter to the author as a woman and second-generation immigrant in a capitalist, exploitative, and degrading world.

    Contents:
    • When mark connolly asks me why the revolution has to be violent
    • white queer opens a gofundme
    • what becomes of us
    • questions for google assistant at 4am
    • manic
    • anthem
    • joysong
    • my father's feet land here in the 80s and
    • grief
    • conversation(s) from the artist to her mother
    • acknowledgements Self-portrait of the artist as a sari
    • in the alternate universe
    • nine things I want to say to elizabeth gilbert
    • mother tongue
    • what is a country
    • on the day priyanka chopra and nick jonas get engaged
    • fat girls rise
    • vulva love
    • dear jason kenney
    • on the day india decriminalizes homosexual acts
    • even the punjabi girls wouldn't play with me
    • if a body bleeds out on a rainbow crosswalk, does it even make a sound?
    • whale song
    • justin trudeau has nothing to wear on diversity day
    • baby, be the life of the party Intro
    • fat girl tweets about pussy
    • I went to india
    • I tell my mother that I want to be a poet
    • chai latte
    • I do not watch the west wing anymore
    • self-portrait as tampon
    • two legs
    • I am so eloquent
    • tightrope
    • no one believed I was a lesbian, so I cut off all my hair
    • age nine
    • sex toys
    • magajmari
    • child
    • portrait of myself in my mother's mouth
    • funeral song
    • autumn leaves
    • the visitor
    • self-portrait of the artist as acne
    • last call
    • father
    • how I chose to remember it
    • if the new york times still bought love stories
    • reflection
    • awake
    Genre:
    Canadian poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry -- 21st century
    Original Publisher: Edmonton [Alberta.], NeWest Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 1774390248, 9781774390245
    Collection(s)/Series: Read Alberta eBook Collection