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Fanny Howe’s posthumous This Poor Book is a collection that repurposes and remixes previous work, challenging our notions of revision while also serving as a guide to getting lost.
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the sky’s abortifacient blue a retrospect…
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By Maryam Ala Amjadi
In the end, are there any beginnings
that beg to differ
that even the most winding bloodline
spills from…
that beg to differ
that even the most winding bloodline
spills from…
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work.
Poem of the day
morning after morning
the earth buffers in wait
for the rising of the sun ...
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