Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

Description:

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.

subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Canadian poetry,  Canadian poetry--21st century,  Pr9199.4.h67 a6 2015,  C811/.6