Word Problems - by Ian Williams (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>From Ian Williams, author of <i>Reproduction</i>, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Going in circles is structural ... in Ian Williams's <i>Word Problems</i>, a challenge in this case not of nature but of white supremacist culture and its enforcement. <strong>--<i>Event Magazine</i></strong></p><br><br><p>"[Ian Williams] blends personal emotion with historical tension, tradition and modernity, ordinary and magical so seamlessly. When he pulls the strings of contradictions: light and heavy, hilarious and serious, I can't help but dance like a happy puppet in the masterful hands. I'm so happy to find another shining star above Canada's poetry horizon!" <strong>--Griffin Prize Judges Citation on <i>Personals</i></strong></p><br>
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