Overview

Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they're instantly familiar and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubiquity shapes and reinforces the biases, privilege, and stereotypes of their distinct aesthetic. From found poems using metadata and keywords to riffs on stock image database search results with titles like 'Good Mother Morning Family Happy,' 'Beautiful Woman Eating Salad,' and 'Lady Boss Smiles with Arms Folded,' Delisle's ekphrastic poems take a playful look at stock photography's cliches and delight in all its strangeness, while casting a critical eye on its representations of women.

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Praise for Deriving:Deriving is a masterfully crafted collection that is both prescient and relevant. Delisle traverses time, language, geography, and topography and deftly synthesizes the ethereal and the concrete with poems that 'sound the shape of a thousand leaves.' Delisle’s lens zooms in and out from the internal workings of motherhood, family, and love, even as it brings into focus etymology, biology, climate change, and politics. Above all, this collection is a magical exploration of language’s perfection and elusiveness. Here is a voice that enlightens, surprises, and stirs. Deriving is rich―its breadth and depth compel the reader to experience poetry that, at its core, is about 'finding words/for everything I’ll never understand.'"" – Wendy McGrath, Recurring Fictions 

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle's collection of lyric essays, Micrographia (2023), won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and the Writers Guild of Alberta Memoir Award. She is also the author of Deriving, a collection of poetry (2021), and The Bosun Chair, a lyric family memoir (2017). She is on the board of NeWest Press and lives in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory.

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