Verse and Worse Laurier Poetry

"Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 presents texts from the last two decades by one of the most innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery's major texts but also features a substantial number of previously ungathered poems. As playful as they are cerebral, these poems stage an incessant departure from conventional lyrical and narrative methods of making meaning. For those encountering McCaffery's work for the first time, as well as for those who have followed the twists and turns of his astonishingly heterogeneous poetic trajectory, this volume is essential reading."--Jacket.