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As the inaugural event of their new Disability Series, Argo Bookshop will welcome Elsa Sjunneson and Dominik Parisien, co-editors of the Hugo Award-winning special issue of Uncanny Magazine, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Join Elsa and Dominik in conversation about the project and how it shaped the work they're doing now, as well as readings of their work.
Dominik Parisien is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Side Effects May Include Strangers. He is a writer, editor, and poet and the author of the chapbook We, Old Young Ones. He lives in Toronto.
A powerful contribution to the field of disability poetics, Side Effects May Include Strangers is an affecting look at the multitude of ways a body is both boundary and boundless. Parisien takes bpNichol's claim that "what is a poem is inside of your body" and localizes the inner and outer lives of disabled, queer, and aging bodies as points of meaning for issues of autonomy, disability, sexuality, and language. Balancing hope and uncertainty, anger and gratitude, these poems shift from medical practice to myth, from trauma to intergenerational friendship, in an unflinching exploration of the beauty and complexity of othered bodies.