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One Crossed Out

By Howe, Fanny

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Fanny Howe's new collection presents a portrait painted from the inside of the life of a homeless woman. The poems speak in the voice of May, the girl crossed out, the bad girl, the mad and drunk girl, the jailed and drugged girl. May is swirling in language, and the language convinces us that we really are deep in the core of a human consciousness, near the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. May is a neonomad, bringing to the world the opposite of worldliness, offering a glimpse of the invisible.

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ISBN
978-1-55597-259-2
Publisher
Graywolf Press


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Reviewed on November 1, 1997

A prolific writer of fiction and poetry for 25 years, Howe has never snubbed the real world of damaged and alienated human lives in favor of pure aesthetics, yet her inventive, consistently surprising poems challenge the familiar conventions of lyric and narrative through an idiosyncratic and hard-won understanding of how language inhab...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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