Identity Theft

Identity Theft engages with the rhetoric of fashion (specifically haute couture), to create a poetic that is polemical in its urgency and explicitly French in its means. A hybrid text, fashion illustrations and graphics accompany the chapbook’s 13 poems, varying from a hand dripping with diamonds to a cluster of slingback heels. Daly, the author of two previous full-length collections (Locket and DaDaDa) here uses these charged cultural signifiers to engage with the politics of identity formation, usurpation, and reclamation.