Danger Flower

A baby transforms into a reverse mermaid in a baptism gone wrong. After being stepped on, a snail exacts revenge. InDanger Flower, Jaclyn Desforges leads enlightened witnesses through a wild garden where archetypal tales are treated with tongue-in-cheek irreverence. Amidst nesting dolls and opossums, poison oak and Tamagotchis, the poet navigates gender roles, sexual indiscretions, episodic depression, and mothering, forming essential survival strategies for a changing world.Danger Floweris a necessary debut. (FromPalimpsest Press)

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Jaclyn Desforges is a poet and picture book author. She has won the 2018 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award and the 2020 Hamilton Emerging Artist Award for Writing. Her work has been featured in Room Magazine, The FiddleheadandThe Puritan. She lives in Hamilton, Ont.