From Toronto s poet laureate (2012 15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. This autobiographical sequence in 980 lines contains 70 stanzas of skeletal sonnets composed, astonishingly, in one day and one evening. "Traverse" is a web of intersecting, crisscrossing impulses, a great burst of imaginative energy and aesthetic reflection that celebrates a 30-year period of Clarke s writing poetry."