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Praise for
You Know Who You
Are
Frenetic
is the word that comes to
mind. Pure. Electric.
Genius.
--Naomi Benaron, 2010 winner
of the Bellwether Prize
Ian Williams' You
Know Who You Are x-rays
our social masks, our
deceitful, greeting-card and
billboard and video slogans,
to show us up as who we
really are--still human
despite all the technology
that makes us sound like
idiots and prods us to feel
nothing. Williams don't care
bout e-mail poses or
cellphone attitude; he tears
away at our language of
bleeps and downloads and
broadcasts to show us
vulnerable, full of hurt and
desire. What's he like?
Think Atwood, Coupland's
Generation X, and Bok:
avant-garde cool,
intelligent saying. Pick it
up, get hooked up, see you
seeing you clearer.
--George Elliott Clarke,
Laureate, 2001
Governor-General's Award for
Poetry
Reading Ian Williams' poems
I am both shattered and
revived. They conjure a
dazzling concoction of
loneliness and hope, a wild
display of the endless
sparks and twists that
become our lives. You
Know Who You Are is an
electric addition to
Canadian poetry. What a
debut!
--Carolyn Smart, author of
Hooked
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