{"product_id":"letters-in-a-bruised-cosmos-9780771037573","title":"Letters in a Bruised Cosmos","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection\u003ci\u003e Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE, FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have to believe my account will outpace its ending.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe danger and necessity of living with each other is at the core of Liz Howard’s daring and intimate second collection. \u003ci\u003eLetters in a Bruised Cosmos\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eLetters in a Bruised Cosmos\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that once read will not soon be forgotten.  \u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62342099730819,"sku":"9780771037573","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780771037573.jpg?v=1786172192","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/letters-in-a-bruised-cosmos-9780771037573","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}