Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
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- Synopsis
- The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE, FINALISTTRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALIST I have to believe my account will outpace its ending.The danger and necessity of living with each other is at the core of Liz Howard&’s daring and intimate second collection. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos asks who do we become after the worst has happened? Invoking the knowledge histories of Western and Indigenous astrophysical science, Howard takes us on a breakneck river course of radiant and perilous survival in which we are invited to &“reforge [ourselves] inside tomorrow&’s humidex&”. Everyday observation, family history, and personal tragedy are sublimated here in a propulsive verse that is relentlessly its own. Part autobiography, part philosophical puzzlement, part love song, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos is a book that once read will not soon be forgotten.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 80 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780771037580
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780771037573
- Publisher:
- McClelland & Stewart
- Date of Addition:
- 11/10/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Liz Howard
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.