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Deriving is a feminist exploration of the creation of life, of family, and of words themselves. Delisle asks: How does past infertility colour the experience of new motherhood? How do historical voices echo in the present? How does language impact our ways of being in the world? These poems embrace the rich material of mothering with unapologetic honesty, confronting the experiences that some would keep hidden. Fear, anger, envy mix with joy and ultimately hope, as Delisle considers the challenges of conceiving and raising children in both familial and global contexts. Deriving is a poignant, lyrical meditation on longing, place, and embodiment. I watched it freeze up, rafts of white snagging beneath the bridge,frazil ice, pans linked along the shoreline.Inside me my son was building white fat on bone.- from “North Saskatchewan”
CONTENTSxi Etymology1 WATER IN A BLUE GLASS2 Caribou4 Seeds6 The Way We Stand7 Instinct9 Reasons10 February in Vancouver11 Embryopathology Report12 Gifts18 Gravity19 Know the Way20 Vancouver21 Anemochory22 Highway 16, Near Blue River24 To Violet25 Spring28 SHOEBOX PHOTOS37 DRINK THE RIVER38 Muskeg39 It Never Rains40 Two Prints42 Ultrasound44 Food45 Rules46 North Saskatchewan47 Incongruous48 Nurse49 Falling Boundary51 “THE PERFECTION OF WOMANHOOD”52 Natural Childbirth53 Son-of-a-Gun54 Equivalent55 Bikini56 Concession / Stand59 HOW THE RIVER CARVES OUR NAMES60 Mother67 One Little, Two Little, Three Little68 Lioness69 How Much I Want the Thing I Never Remember70 Patience71 September Snow72 Go Green73 Precarious75 Notes77 Acknowledgments
# 8 on Edmonton Poetry Bestseller list, May 9, 2021
