This Poor Book Mercury Through the complexities of Henry-Smith's

Through the complexities of Henry-Smith's personal experiences and the use of a poetically fragmented voice

Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009

With a ferocity both musical and analytic

zijn onversierde taal beweegt zich op het snijvlak van poëzie en filologie

He goes berserk and murders his whole family

This Poor Book Mercury Through the complexities of Henry-Smith'sFanny Howe For decades, Fanny Howe has been our great poet of spirit and conscience, dislocation and bewilderment. In This Poor Book, completed just before her death, she has gathered a selection of poems and excerpts from the last thirty years, including new and revised poems, and has arranged them into an astonishing singular poem. Across this brilliant reconfiguration of her work, we follow the poet as seeker, both faithful and foolish, searching