Letters Against the Firmament Laura Jaramillo these poems—written over a span

these poems—written over a span of 18 years from 1999 to 2017—parody the very act of writing amid worn-out rhetorical tropes

Then even a mattress becomes translatable and everything connects ‘in this border trade / on my tongue

and published only one other book of poetry: the collection The Matrix: Poems 1960–1970 (Doubleday

"An explosion of verbal fireworks Adorno might have envisioned on a dark night after too many reruns of a post-doctorate thesis on the subtext of the multicultural aspects of original sin as pictured on daytime TV

Letters Against the Firmament Laura Jaramillo these poems—written over a spanSean Bonney Letters Against the Firmament is a users report on the end of the world, a treatise against Tory terror, a proposal for a new zodiac, a defence of poetry, a hex against the devourers of planet earth. The Letters are fierce epistolary poems, a vivid account of the sheer panic and brutality of the Austerity years. They are apocalyptic screeds of black humour hammered out in an obscure corner of east London, fearful attempts to ward off the