The Lyrics: Poems

Who was that stranger beside me?
Please forgive me for insisting
It must have been a dream.
No one could survive such happiness.

--from "[Untitled]"

The Lyrics by Fanny Howe records the days of one seeking knowledge through movement and contingent images--a monastery, a motel, an Irish coastal river--all the while conscious of political and class warfare, of being American, of the need to know the difference (if there is one) between good and evil. Each poem is a lament formed in a place of rest, asking: Can we get beyond this and still be? The Lyrics is the newest work of an intense and vital poet.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 06/26/2007
ISBN: 9781555974725
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.80w x 0.28d

Review Citations: Library Journal 06/15/2007 pg. 74
Publishers Weekly 06/25/2007 pg. 36