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ISBN: 9781774390238

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Coconut

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In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love. These are vitally political, feminist poems for young women of colour, with bold portrayals of confession, hurt, and healing.

Coconut rises fiercely like the sun. These poems bestow light and warmth and the ability to witness the world, but they ask for more than basking; they ask readers to grow and warn that they can be burnt. Above all, Nisha Patel’s work questions and challenges propriety and what it means to be a good woman, second-generation immigrant, daughter, consumer, and lover.

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Nisha Patel

Nisha is an award-winning Indo-Canadian poet, artist, and public speaker in Edmonton, Alberta. She was the eighth Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton and is the Regional Writer in Residence at Strathcona County and St. Albert. She is also the 2019 Canadian Individual Slam Champion and a masters student at Queen's University. Her debut collection Coconut is available now at Glass Bookshop.
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 1- 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 … 21 $2.10

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 2 – child – portrait of myself in my mother’s mouth – funeral song – autumn leaves – the visitor – self-portrait of the artist as acne – last call … 22 $2.20

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 3 – 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 … 20 $2.00

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 4 – baby, be the life of the party – when mark connolly asks me why the revolution has to be violent – white queer opens a gofundme – what becomes of us – questions … 27 $2.70