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A daring and intimate collection of poetry from Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning author Liz Howard, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos explores the danger and necessity of living with each other through topics including trauma, loneliness, grief, gender politics, violence . . .

Part autobiography, part philosophical puzzlement, part love song, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos offers a kind of truth-telling that occasionally breaks into the surrealist, sharp with observation to create a truly original offering. 

"The poems in Letters in a Bruised Cosmos are intimate, astonishing, and moving caresses of the bruise the past makes within and around us, marking the many ways in which ‘history is a sewing motion / along a thin membrane’.” -- Judges' Citation, Griffin Poetry Prize