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  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9780771038365
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $45.00
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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.

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.

  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9780771038365
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

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Praise for Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

Praise for Liz Howard:    • "Liz Howard's scene is the northern "wilderness"--[her work] reminds its reader that this thing called nature does not precede history, culture, or politics, and that the great white north has certain deadly effects." Lemon Hound     • "One thing I like is her lack of modesty, her strong, complex mode of statement, the sense that a precisely situated ethics is being newly inscribed." Lisa Robertson