Versus

From Montreal's metro stations and streets to pastoral mise-en-scenes, William Vallieres' first book, Versus, is a lyric bildungsroman filled with portraits of seduction and infatuation, loneliness and buried shame. What yesterday had fought to bud / Is stunted under ice today. These are darkly canny poems about childhood, familial histories, lost love and the weariness of spending one's being being / Everything I'm against. Deftly crafted, intense and compact, with barbed insights arrived at through verbal twists and syntactic half-turns, Vallieres' voice is entirely his own.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Signal Editions
Published: 04/01/2020
ISBN: 9781550655377
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.90w x 0.40d