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The Emily Valentine Poems

October 5, 2016 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781926743875
$16.95
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Description

The Emily Valentine Poems is an innovative book that challenges the impossible notions of femininity that permeate our culture. The texts within include self-portraits, prose poems, fake fan letters, and confessional lyric snapshots. These are pharmaceutically enhanced tributes to the hangovers of twenty-something love and to the pop icons from an unconventional 1980s childhood. With The Emily Valentine Poems, Zoe Whittall provides us with the perfect soundtrack for the culturally literate rebel in all of us.

"Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler."--The Globe and Mail

"This reminds me that I would like to know everything about this person."--Eileen Myles

About this Author

Zoe Whittall is the author of four novels, including The Best Kind of People and Holding Still for as Long as Possible . She published her third collection of poetry, Precordial Thump, in 2008 with Exile Editions. She works as a TV writer and novelist in Toronto.

ISBN: 9781926743875
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 80
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Published: 2016-10-05

Reviews

"Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler."--The Globe and Mail

"Whittal is able to compactly reveal the sadness, anxiety, madness, and desire of her poetic subjects, using potent imagery and dark humour."--Montreal Review of Books

"Zoe Whittall's book of poetry begins with a sense of frustration: 'You have love and the word love, but the two will never meet.' Once into this attractively packaged collection, you can quickly deem Whittall's frustration with language unnecessary. Her words, dense with meaning, flow in such a serene manner that they beg to be read aloud. With these words, Whittall transforms you into a shameless voyeur, peering into the speaker's strangest emotions and wildest weekends."--Broken Pencil

"Zoe Whittall's works in The Emily Valentine Poems will have you smiling, sneering, smirking, and just plain irking in no time at all."--Black Heart Magazine

"This reminds me that I would like to know everything about this person."--Eileen Myles

"Zoe Whittall's poems are snake bite cures masquerading as candy."--RM Vaughan

"Whittall's big sense of humour is the under-coat on all these poems but it doesn't take much reminding that the serious side of Zoe Whittall is stone cold."--Michael Dennis

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