Fanny Howe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. In a 2004 interview with the Kenyon Review Howe said, “If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone’s notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.” Indeed, more than a subject or theme, the process of recording experience is central to Howe’s poetry. Her wor...