Versus
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550655322
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $17.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781550655377
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $17.99
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Description
From Montreal’s metro stations and streets to pastoral mise-en-scènes, 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, Valliere’s voice is entirely his own.
About the author
William Vallières is a Montreal poet. His work has appeared in The Walrus, Event, and Grain.