<p><i>The Emily Valentine Poems</i> is an innovative book that challenges the impossible notions of femininity that permeate our culture. The texts within include self-portraits, prose poems, fake fan letters, and confessional lyric snapshots. These are pharmaceutically enhanced tributes to the hangovers of twenty-something love and to the pop icons from an unconventional 1980s childhood. With <i>The Emily Valentine Poems</i>, Zoe Whittall provides us with the perfect soundtrack for the culturally literate rebel in all of us.</p><p>“Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler.”<b>—<i>The Globe and Mail</i></b></p><p>“This reminds me that I would like to know everything about this person.”<b>—Eileen Myles</b></p>