Skip to content
Word Problems (Paperback)
  • Word Problems (Paperback)
zoom

Word Problems (Paperback)

(author)
£12.99
Paperback 112 Pages
Published: 26/11/2020
Notify me when available

Stay one step ahead and let us notify you when this item is next available to order.

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.

Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 9781552454145
Number of pages: 112
Dimensions: 203 x 127 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

"Going in circles is structural ... in Ian Williams’s Word Problems, a challenge in this case not of nature but of white supremacist culture and its enforcement. —Event Magazine "His word play is always in the service of a deadly seriousness, and recognizing the issues is critical to an improvement in relations among human beings." —The Ormsby Review

You may also be interested in...

Inferno: The Divine Comedy I
Added to basket
Selected Poems
Added to basket
The Odyssey
Added to basket
Paperback
£16.99
Poems
Added to basket
Paperback
£8.99
Paradise Lost
Added to basket
Paperback
£8.99
Beowulf
Added to basket
Paperback
£12.99
The Odyssey
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99
Collected Poems
Added to basket
New Selected Poems 1966-1987
Added to basket
Selected Poems
Added to basket
Paperback
£10.99
The Divine Comedy
Added to basket
Ariel
Added to basket
Hardback
£12.99
Metamorphoses
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99
The Canterbury Tales
Added to basket

Please sign in to write a review

Your review has been submitted successfully.