Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

By Liz Howard

Book Overview

Winner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize 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
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771038364
• ISBN13: 9780771038365
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"