book cover of The Lyrics
 

The Lyrics

(2007)
A collection of poems by

 
 
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.


Genre: Children's Fiction

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