{"product_id":"9780771038372","title":"Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning debut book of poems from a bold new voice unafraid to engage with the exigencies of our contemporary world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e    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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117320519920,"sku":"9780771038372","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780771038372_p0.jpg?v=1763662080","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780771038372","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}