"With extraordinary self-scrutiny and complexity--unmatchable
musical poise and beauty--Fanny Howe examines our relationship with
'other' worlds, purgatories of various kinds: genetic, historical,
theological. She writes from a world where hell is as close as God,
or family, or love, where nothing happens that can, her syntax
doubling back, as though it were possible by such formal and
linguistic means to transform doubt into faith. It is a wonder to
watch this poet try to decipher error with the knowledge that each
error is necessary and the only guide is disguised as love. Heart,
come along and be as heartless/ as you know you are, she tells us.
Work this honest is rare indeed."--Jorie Graham
"Howe's new volume is a double-edged sword: in it she creates
beauty and questions it, pursues faith and lives with doubt, finds
love and finds hate there waiting. Her book 'transverberates' with
all the paradoxes at 'the crux/of the huddle.' Howe is always an
unpretentious pilgrim 'shinnying up the silence' into ever thinner
atmospheres. I trust her as much as I have ever trusted
anyone."--Rae Armantrout, author of "Veil: New and Selected
Poems
"Fanny Howe's poems travel through stations, agonies, and
intoxications to build a phenomenology of spirits. Her language
lays bare the human condition of vision and unknowing, inheritance
and reinvention. These impish devotions move holy and
astray."--Elizabeth Willis, author of "The Human Abstract
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