{"product_id":"bad-weather-mammals-poems-paperback","title":"Bad Weather Mammals: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAshley-Elizabeth Best\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The sick should be good. \/ It is a kind of undoing,\" Ashley-Elizabeth Best writes in her second collection. \u003ci\u003eBad Weather Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e navigates the devastations and joys of living in a disabled and traumatized body. By taking a backward glance, she traces how growing up under the maladaptive bureaucracy of social services with a single disabled mother and five younger siblings led her to a precarious future in which she is also disabled and living on social assistance. In poems that explore a variety of formal constraints, such as the suite \"ODSP 1, 2, \u0026amp; 3,\" which infuses government forms with lyric poetry, she suggests all the ways the medical and bureaucratic systems can dehumanize and traumatize our most vulnerable citizens. By digging deep into her own experiences, Best has archived the ways we fail each other in our most desperate times -- while at the same time outlining how we can show up to revel in disabled joy and community. \u003ci\u003eBad Weather Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e disassembles dominant narratives about how disabled individuals should be and reconceptualizes the embodied experiences that recenter us in our own narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAshley-Elizabeth Best\u003c\/b\u003e is a disabled poet and essayist from Kingston, ON. Her work can be found in the\u003ci\u003e Capilano Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e New Welsh Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e CV2\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ambit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Mslexia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/i\u003e. Recently, she was a finalist for the CBC Literary Award for Poe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47459280060594,"sku":"9781770417816","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b636e55635e7da0cf0ff2c18f0db0768.webp?v=1778900595","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/bad-weather-mammals-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}