A celebration of language by a gifted poet.
Endorsements:
“Howe’s poems are fact of a consummately gifted ear and a singularly compassionate intelligence. She sounds the complex particulars of history’s echoes with an intensity altogether her own. This is major work in every sense”—Robert Creeley
From the Book:
Fence blown down in a winter storm
darkened by the outstripped possession
Filed stretching out of the world
this book is as old as the people
There are traces of blood in a fairy tale
