{"product_id":"i-am-so-happy-i-connor-shieldes-9798700867733","title":"I Am So Happy I Am a Wake","description":"Connor Shieldes prides himself on his dark poetry. In his debut poetry chapbook, Mr. Connor Shieldes reveals what it's like to have chronic mental illnesses as a transgender man with gender dysphoria: a feeling like no other, which Connor Shieldes has described is like someone swapped [his] soul with a body that looks great, but isn't [his]. Shieldes divides his book into two (rhyming) sections: \"The Depressives\" and \"The Narratives,\" of which the latter explores lighter, storyline-oriented poems and ballads. Don't be fooled by the author's seemingly lightening sense of life in part II of his poetry book, though-- the final section of the tongue-in-cheek I Am So Happy I Am a Wake includes a final poem which hallmarks the returning, almost-avenging nature of clinical, cyclical depression, schizoaffective disorder, gender dysphoria, chronic PTSD, and many other mentally-debilitating conditions: they all come back to haunt the sufferer in the end. But for Connor Shieldes, his outlet is writing, and his written accounts provide much more than a sliver of hope and validation across a spectrum of surviving the life he and many others lead as lights through the darkness... With sleek, crisp, blunt, and punk-rock-influenced styles in both Shieldes's original poetry and drawings, prepare for a time-warp into one transgender man's ingenious, clever, amazingly-witty, tortured-- and yet resilient-- mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Connor Shieldes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798700867733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Connor Shieldes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851939131647,"sku":"9798700867733","price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-am-so-happy-i-connor-shieldes-9798700867733","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}