Word Problems
Math textbooks ask questions with easy answers: Billy has five nickels, Jane gets to the train first, etc. In Word Problems, Ian Williams tries to force poetry to offer us such unambiguous answers,…
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Math textbooks ask questions with easy answers: Billy has five nickels, Jane gets to the train first, etc. In Word Problems, Ian Williams tries to force poetry to offer us such unambiguous answers, slotting tough questions about racial inequality, our pernicious depression, and troubled relationships between people - questions that resist tidy resolutions - into verse. If we rely too heavily on science and math to understand the ineffable, he suggests, we end up in the absurd position of asking the wrong questions altogether.With characteristic inventiveness, Williams presents an alternative to associative lyric poems and narrative prose poems. This new mode is situational - poems behave as propositions that invite explicit reader participation. They are immersive and ever-progressing, with inventive typography. Like an industrial building, many of the poems anxiously
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