{"product_id":"versus-william-vallieres-9781550655377","title":"Versus","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Vallieres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 155065537X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550655377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signal Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.30h x 4.90w x 0.40d","brand":"William Vallieres","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485609636095,"sku":"9781550655377","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35783ee5-deec-43c6-a586-69aae1e36538.jpg?v=1778050358","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/versus-william-vallieres-9781550655377","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}