Letters Against the Firmament Laura Jaramillo 70s and 80s

70s and 80s

and overlapped

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

"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

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

Letters Against the Firmament Laura Jaramillo 70s and 80sSean 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