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Fanny Howe's strangely hushed but busy landscape keeps leading us into it until we realize we're lost but wouldn't want to be anywhere else. This book is a strange joy.

—John Ashbery

This complexly articulate writer uses poetry as a final resource. All the authority of her power becomes explicit in these poems, the musing, twisting thoughts and persons woven into a meld of great force and beauty. This is life if it could speak. Here it does.

—Robert Creeley

Fanny Howe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and fiction, and the publication of her selected poems is a major literary event. The theme of these poems is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting, yet small margin in which return from exile is imaginable and perhaps even possible. Her most powerful poems are simultaneously investigations into the possibility of salvation and protests against the difficulty of its attainment.

Paperback. 2000.
Autographed by Fanny Howe.