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  title info:
    title: I hate parties
  title info:
    title: I hate parties
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: I hate parties (Compilation)
  name:
    name part: Battis, Jes
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 101 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between queer and anxious spaces. Social anxiety runs through I Hate Parties like a current. Recorded on deliberately shaky media, this collection offers the B-side of growing up queer, autistic and nonbinary. From Scruff dates to mix tapes, Jes Battis cruises (and crashes) through wild feelings and minor catastrophes. Dipping readers into a world of missed connections, social disasters and life as a queer party that constantly surprises, Battis uses a light touch and neurodiverse prosody as they chronicle middle-grade queerness and a kind of meandering surreality. From difficult desires, panic attacks and environmental sensitivities, Battis weaves nineties metaphors with current discussions of neurodiversity and trans rights in Canada as they ruminate between past and present like a cat refusing to settle. I Hate Parties guides us through all the best and worst parties of our lives, to the secret room beyond, where being awkward is the one and only dress code.
  table of contents: 1. Winters -- Triple axel -- Sleepover -- Four-way stop -- Bear of my youth -- Little earthquakes -- Small-town gays -- I hate parties -- The most immersive experience -- Hockey town -- 2. Calamities -- Dubbed -- The odd -- All asps forgiven --South Granville -- Tenderfoot -- Winter skips -- The tribble -- Draft poems -- It's funny -- 3. Episodes -- Speech delay -- Spidey sense -- Tism -- Woof -- Pronoun policy -- Marlena is once again possessed -- Leaving the Shire -- The repair shop -- 4. Transits -- Glass crack time machine -- Undo list -- Checkup -- Mouthful -- How to stay gay in quarantine -- Tremors -- Hairball -- My boyfriend names every Bond movie chronologically.
  note: Jes Battis.
  subject:
    topic: Canadian poetry
  classification: PR9199.4.B387 I24 2024
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9780889714809
  identifier: 0889714800
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240506
    record change date: 20250926164602.6
    record identifier: in00005646933
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng