The Truth About Facts

Poetry. THE TRUTH ABOUT FACTS makes intimate the seeming noise of information and facts by using the tradition of the alphabet book to get back to basics: to make room for wonder, devotion, and a reinvigorated role for poetry in both quick and methodological thought. Vautour leads his readers on an info-drenched, abecedarian jaunt that is both tongue-in-cheek and unquestionably earnest. Ranging from topics as assorted as Brazil Nuts and Juggling to meditations on Rememoration and the Zodiac, THE TRUTH ABOUT FACTS moves between the surety of aphorism and the anxieties of critique.

"If, like me, you find yourself randomly clicking through Wikipedia articles late into the night, you will love this delightful ramble through the facts."--Sachiko Murakami

"Following the wisdom of his daughter, through whose eyes and ears the alphabet is encountered anew, Vautour tracks factual and fictional subjects out of anagrammatical accident, on through dictionaries, histories, lexicons, and archives--a Borgenian infinite library we spiral through, as 'hard facts' encrust the edges of the world's 'fake news.' I want to call Vautour 'the Glen Gould of poetry, ' and THE TRUTH ABOUT FACTS his unmatched alphabetical variations."--Stephen Collis

"Fact: this ain't your colonist schoolmarm's New England Primer. These are the facts and truths, and their implosions and undoings, that you want to sit with, savour, and, with childlike vigour, question everything you thought you already knew."--Kate Siklosi