The Lyrics: Poems

By Fanny Howe

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555974724
• ISBN13: 9781555974725
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 9.0"