Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

By: Liz Howard

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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.