Word Problems
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Word Problems

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Word Problems

About this book

From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read

Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve – racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we have with other people – Ian Williams revisits the seemingly simple questions of grade school for inspiration: if Billy has five nickels and Jane has three dimes, how many Black men will be murdered by police? He finds no satisfaction, realizing that maybe there are no easy answers to ineffable questions.

Williams uses his characteristic inventiveness to find not just new answers but new questions, reconsidering what poetry can be, using math and grammar lessons to shape poems that invite us to participate. Two long poems cut through the text like vibrating basenotes, curiosities circle endlessly, and microaggressions spin into lyric. And all done with a light touch and a joyful sense of humour.

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Information

Publisher
Coach House Books
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781552454145
eBook ISBN
9781770566484
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia canadese

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. It is possible to move on without moving forward
  6. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee
  7. Word problems
  8. Midas
  9. Corrections
  10. Affect | Affection
  11. Mood disorder
  12. Spontaneous overflow
  13. Subject Verb Object
  14. The Great Exhaustion
  15. Iceberg
  16. Cart
  17. Gruyère
  18. Pictures of cows
  19. Cliché
  20. Do you know everyone you know by name?
  21. Resolution, a sonnet
  22. Broad is the way
  23. The end of the line
  24. And lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world
  25. It is possible to go back without going away
  26. Hair is choking the drain
  27. Where are you really from
  28. Where are you
  29. Tu me manques
  30. Why does everything have to be about race with you people?
  31. And Finished knowing – then –
  32. Our eyes meet across yet another room
  33. The past sometimes appears conditional
  34. Intersections
  35. Consolations
  36. Convalescence
  37. On the use of you
  38. People forget that
  39. After Autumn
  40. 忙 Busy
  41. 累 Tired
  42. Cuando pierdo
  43. Cuando me pierdo
  44. Someone like you
  45. Tell me when will you be fine
  46. Quando quando quando
  47. Träumerei
  48. Post-traumatic
  49. Notes and Acknowledgements
  50. About the Author