Skullduggery

The poems in this masterful new collection connote a simple warning: trust nothing. The compilation's hilarious final piece, which recasts Canada's discovery as a hoax from the Middle Ages, transforms shortfalls of perception into tour de force. performances. Drawing on a deepened range of forms-including comic set-pieces, verse-plays, and dramatic monologues-these compositions embrace deception as both a theme and a tactic, portraying encounters that test the threshold of what is real and what is imaginary.