Book Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard MOBI
9780771038365 English 0771038364 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.", Infinite Citizens of the Shaking Tent explores a poetics of uncertainty and troubled ecology. It takes the reader on a journey of self formation and questioning, from the stark wilderness of the Boreal forest into urban cacophony and material plenitude. It confronts the problem of language as a conduit for consciousness through which we must provide an account of ourselves and exist as political subjects. What is unsayable? How can I know myself? The poems remix language from cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, literary theory, and environmental science to defamiliarize received notions of the natural world and what it means to be human. Many of the poems are also deeply personal and chronicle a childhood of poverty in a fading northern Ontario lumber town and a struggle toward knowledge. They are reflective of states of doubleness: of the poet being of both European and Indigenous ancestry, of being formed by a staggeringly wild landscape and then residing in a city, of striving for certainty and exactitude through science and ultimately embracing the expansive potential of poetry., 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 in Liz Howard's wild, scintillating debut poetry collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent. What Howard can accomplish with language strikes us as electric, hyper-contemporary, a kind of alchemy of perception and catastrophe., 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.
9780771038365 English 0771038364 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.", Infinite Citizens of the Shaking Tent explores a poetics of uncertainty and troubled ecology. It takes the reader on a journey of self formation and questioning, from the stark wilderness of the Boreal forest into urban cacophony and material plenitude. It confronts the problem of language as a conduit for consciousness through which we must provide an account of ourselves and exist as political subjects. What is unsayable? How can I know myself? The poems remix language from cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, literary theory, and environmental science to defamiliarize received notions of the natural world and what it means to be human. Many of the poems are also deeply personal and chronicle a childhood of poverty in a fading northern Ontario lumber town and a struggle toward knowledge. They are reflective of states of doubleness: of the poet being of both European and Indigenous ancestry, of being formed by a staggeringly wild landscape and then residing in a city, of striving for certainty and exactitude through science and ultimately embracing the expansive potential of poetry., 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 in Liz Howard's wild, scintillating debut poetry collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent. What Howard can accomplish with language strikes us as electric, hyper-contemporary, a kind of alchemy of perception and catastrophe., 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.