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The Lyrics: Poems by Howe, Fanny is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lyrics: Poems about?
<p><P><b><i>Who was that stranger beside me?<p>Please forgive me for insisting It must have been a dream.<p>No one could survive such happiness.<P></i> —from "[Untitled]"<P></b><i>The Lyrics </i>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? <i>The Lyrics </i>is the newest work of an intense and vital poet.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>In her latest collection, the prolific Howe continues her career-long pursuit of moral clarity and spiritual insight: "What is a poet but a person/ Who lives on the ground/ Who laughs and listens// Without pretension of knowing/ Anything, driven by the lyric's/ Quest for rest that never/ (God willing) will be found?" Diaristic and plainspoken, these seven sequences are welcoming and immediately likable, especially "The Days," which finds Howe at her most apothegmatic ("A seed can be stamped on/ And still wan
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- Author
- Howe, Fanny
- Publisher
- Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555974725
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 4.14 / 5 (59 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13