Synopsis
These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Ian Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don’t end. With a deft hand and playful ear, Williams entices the reader to stumble alongside his characters as they search, again and again, for intimacy, for love, and for each other.
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About the Author
Ian Williams is the author of Reproduction, winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His poetry collection Personals was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. His short story collection, Not Anyone's Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. His first book, You Know Who You Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. In 2018, he became a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia.
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Shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, Personals is voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets, and creates forms of his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don't end. With a deft hand and playful ear, Williams entices the reader to stumble alongside his characters as they search, again and again, for intimacy, for love, for each other.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. A Near Fine copy with minimal shelfwear and an uncreased spine. Seller Inventory # 643268
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Soft Cover. Condition: VG. No statement of later print, signed with an inscription by the poet on the dedication page. Curl at corners/edges, light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. Wraps have light edge/rub wear and light creasing. Shortlisted Griffin poetry prize foil label on the front panel. Actual book for sale pictured. 16.6 x 22.9 x .7cm, wt300g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 029030