{"product_id":"9780520222632","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cbr\u003eOne of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books, mostly with small presses, and this publication of her selected poems is a major event.\u003cp\u003eHowe's theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting, tiny margin in which movement out of exile is imaginable and perhaps possible. Her best poems are simultaneously investigations of that possibility and protests against the difficulty of salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoston is the setting of some of the early poems, and Ireland, the birthplace of Howe's mother, is the home of \u003ci\u003eO'Clock\u003c\/i\u003e, a spiritually piquant series of short poems included in \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metaphysics and the physics of this world play off each other in these poems, and there is a toughness to Howe's unique, fertile nervousness of spirit. Her spare style makes a nest for the soul:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZero built a nest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein my navel. Incurable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonging. Blood too—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom violent actions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a nest belonging to one\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut zero uses it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd its pleasure is its own\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—from \u003ci\u003eThe Quietist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50014311809264,"sku":"9780520222632","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780520222632_p0.jpg?v=1784232442","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780520222632","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}