The Lyrics
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 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.
- Author
- Fanny Howe
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781555974725
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2007
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