Poetry
Versus
- Publisher
- Véhicule Press, “Signal Editions” series
- Published
- September 1, 2019
- Pages
- 72
- Price
- $17.95
- ISBN
- 9781550655377
- Language
- English
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From Montreal’s metro stations and streets to pastoral mise-en-scènes, William Vallières’ 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, Vallières’ voice is entirely his own.
Description from the publisher Véhicule Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
From Véhicule Press
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We Drove All Day for This Bruce Taylor
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Qaf’s People Sadiqa de Meijer
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My Summer Vacation Zeenat Nagree
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Cannibal Rats Richard Greene
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Morgan’s Castle Jan Hilliard
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How to Move On Joel Yanofsky
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Private Number David Homel
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Fan Mail Jason Guriel
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The Inferno Dante Alighieri
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Quietly, Loving Everyone Curtis John McRae
