By Fanny Howe
ISBN-10: 1555976824
ISBN-13: 9781555976828
The new poetry assortment by way of Fanny Howe, whose "body of labor turns out greater, stranger, and extra everlasting with every one new e-book she publishes" (Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize citation)
People are looking to be poets for purposes that experience little to do with language.
It's the lifetime of the poet that they want.
Even the glow of loneliness and humiliation.
To stroll within the gutter with a bottle of wine.
Some people's lives are extra poetic than a poem,
and Francis is definitely certainly one of these.
I recognize, simply because he walked beside me for that brief time
whether you think it or not.
—from "Outremer"
Fanny Howe's poetry is understood for its lyricism, fragmentation, experimentation, non secular engagement, and dedication to social justice. In moment Childhood, the staring at poet is an impersonal determine who accompanies Howe in her encounters with likelihood and secret. She isn't one age or the opposite, in a single time or one other. She writes, "The first query within the Catechism is: / What was once humanity born for? / To be happy is the right kind answer."
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Second Childhood: Poems by Fanny Howe
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