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Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

A stunning debut book of poems from a bold new voice unafraid to engage with the exigencies of our contemporary world.

    In Liz Howard’s wild, scintillating debut, the mechanisms we use to make sense of our worlds — even our direct intimate experiences of it — come under constant scrutiny and a pressure that feels like love. What Howard can accomplish with language strikes us as electric, a kind of alchemy of perception and catastrophe, fidelity and apocalypse. The waters of Northern Ontario shield country are the toxic origin and an image of potential. A subject, a woman, a consumer, a polluter; an erotic force, a confused brilliance, a very necessary form of urgency — all are loosely tethered together and made somehow to resonate with our own devotions and fears; made “to be small and dreaming parallel / to ceremony and decay.” Liz Howard is what contemporary poetry needs right now.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 98
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780771038365
  • Genres
  • poetry, canada, feminism
  • Release date
  • 2015