Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

In Liz Howard's 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.

Year

2015

Language

English

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Editions

1

Pages

112

ISBN

9780771038365

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