A unique debut poetry collection by an upandcoming New York author including fictional artist statements and proposals for performance projectsMorgan Vs fascinating and highly original debut The Selkie is organized into three linked sections animated by jokes confusion existential horror and banality. In an outdoor market we meet an unlikely hero in The Monger buying and selling fish from his stall while the poems around him touch on topics of racial capitalism cultural ties to animals and food dislocation diaspora and the impacts of the nuclear family. Also included are The Mongers own written documents that propose a series of yearlong performance pieces each seemingly created to test and explore his specific individuality among a community of displaced histories.