The Dyzgraphxst Av Canisia Lubrin

Windham-Campbell Prize, WinnerOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, WinnerOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Poetry, WinnerGriffin Poetry Prize, WinnerDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry, WinnerRebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers'' Awards, FinalistGovernor General''s Literary Award for Poetry, FinalistTrillium Book Award for Poetry, FinalistRaymond Souster Award, LonglistPat Lowther Memorial Award, LonglistQuill & Quire 2020 Books of the Year: Editor’s PicksCBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020Winnipeg Free Press Top 10 Poetry Picks of 2020The Paris Review, Contributor''s Edition, Best Books of 2020The Dyzgraphxst presents seven inquiries into selfhood through the perennial figure Jejune. Polyvocal in register, the book moves to mine meanings of kinship through the wide and intimate reach of language across geographies and generations. Against the contemporary backdrop of intensified capitalist fascism, toxic nationalism, and climate disaster, the figure Jejune asks, how have I come to make home out of unrecognizability. Marked by and through diasporic life, Jejune declares, I was not myself. I am not myself. My self resembles something having nothing to do with me.