This Poor Book Ons gaan allemaal

This Poor Book Ons gaan allemaalFanny Howe For decades, Fanny Howe has been our great poet of spirit and conscience, dislocation and bewilderment. In This Poor Book, completed just before her death, she has gathered a selection of poems and excerpts from the last thirty years, including new and revised poems, and has arranged them into an astonishing singular poem. Across this brilliant reconfiguration of her work, we follow the poet as seeker, both faithful and foolish, searching

a crime has been committed

wailing and ritual shouts

where he survived two wars—the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991—and which

Years previously

is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene

his poetry

’ Mischa Andriessen

- Francis Ponge

Looking to more-than-human companions for cues as to when to fight

Mendelssohn’s children generously donated her vast archive to Special Collections at the University of Sussex

De Hagar in deze bundel tart de grote mannen uit de literatuur om haar als reisgezelschap te aanvaarden: `Laat mij deze vuile broek aantrekken/ en jullie achterna komen

Selected Amazon Reviews at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers