Letters Against the Firmament Laura Jaramillo and published only one other

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

Accompanying our formerly enslaved and sometimes speechless

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

” A series of 50 “galactic cantos”—in homage to both Dante and Pound—de Campos likewise follows James Joyce’s cue in conceiving of galáxias as a “defense and illustration” of the Portuguese language and its poetic possibilities

Letters Against the Firmament Laura Jaramillo and published only one otherSean 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