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“Woman laughing alone with salad”: humorous and ironic feminist dialogue with stock photography.
Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they’re instantly familiar – and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubiquity shapes and reinforces the biases, privilege, and stereotypes of their distinct aesthetic.
From found poems using metadata and keywords to riffs on stock image database search results with titles like ‘Good Mother Morning Family Happy,’ ‘Beautiful Woman Eating Salad,’ and ‘Lady Boss Smiles with Arms Folded,’ Delisle’s ekphrastic poems take a playful look at stock photography’s clichés and delight in all its strangeness, while casting a critical eye on its representations of women.
Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they’re instantly familiar – and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubiquity shapes and reinforces the biases, privilege, and stereotypes of their distinct aesthetic.
From found poems using metadata and keywords to riffs on stock image database search results with titles like ‘Good Mother Morning Family Happy,’ ‘Beautiful Woman Eating Salad,’ and ‘Lady Boss Smiles with Arms Folded,’ Delisle’s ekphrastic poems take a playful look at stock photography’s clichés and delight in all its strangeness, while casting a critical eye on its representations of women.
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Paperback
Published September 9, 2025
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About the author
Jennifer Bowering Delisle
11 books7 followersJennifer Bowering Delisle is the author of The Bosun Chair, a hybrid of poetry and family memoir forthcoming from NeWest Press. She has published poetry, non-fiction and fiction in magazines and anthologies across North America.
Jennifer has a PhD in Canadian Literature, and is also the author of The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration.
Jennifer has a PhD in Canadian Literature, and is also the author of The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration.
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