Nisha Patel, Not a Disorder

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.