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Versus
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.
69 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2019
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July 15, 2023
besides the rhyming it was pretty good! drifting snow superiority
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