Love and I

Howe, Fanny

ISBN 10: 1644450046 / ISBN 13: 9781644450048

Published by Graywolf Press, 2019

Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. Seller Inventory # 9781644450048B

Synopsis:

The newest collection from "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine)

Set in transit even as they investigate the transitory, the cinematic poems in Love and I move like a handheld camera through the eternal, the minds of passengers, and the landscapes of Ireland and America. From this slight remove, Fanny Howe explores the edge of "pure seeing" and the worldly griefs she encounters there, cast in an otherworldly light. These poems layer pasture and tarmac, the skies above where airline passengers are compressed with their thoughts and the ground where miseries accumulate, alongside comedies, in the figures of children in a park.

Love can do little but walk with the person and suddenly vanish, and that recurrent abandonment makes it necessary for these poems to find a balance between seeing and believing. For Howe, that balance is found in the Word, spoken in language, in music, in and on the wind, as invisible and continuous lyric thinking heard by the thinker alone. These are poems animated by belief and unbelief. Love and I fulfills Howe's philosophy of Bewilderment.

About the Author: Fanny Howe is the author of The Needle's Eye, Come and See, and The Winter Sun. Her most recent poetry collection, Second Childhood, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her fiction has been a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in New England.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Love and I
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included