{"product_id":"bad-weather-mammals-poems-9781770417816","title":"Bad Weather Mammals: Poems","description":"\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashley-Elizabeth Best\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ECW Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770417816","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43273966977161,"sku":"9781770417816","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0e367e86-2170-4008-9262-a78c4010e505.jpg?v=1736843914","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/bad-weather-mammals-poems-9781770417816","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}