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January 27, 2012

apoetreflects:

“I never think of a possible God reading my poems, although the gods used to love the arts. Poetry could be spoken into a well, of course, and drop like a penny into the black water. Sometimes I think there is a heaven for poems, novels, music, dance, and paintings—but they probably are hard-worked sparks off a great something that may add up to a whole cloth in the infinite.”
—Fanny Howe, taken from “One Whole Voice” in Poetry (v. CXIX, no. 5, February 2012).
Note: “One Whole Voice” is comprised of extracts from God at Every Gate, edited by IIya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler, to be published later this year by Tupelo Press.

“I never think of a possible God reading my poems, although the gods used to love the arts. Poetry could be spoken into a well, of course, and drop like a penny into the black water. Sometimes I think there is a heaven for poems, novels, music, dance, and paintings—but they probably are hard-worked sparks off a great something that may add up to a whole cloth in the infinite.”

—Fanny Howe, taken from “One Whole Voice” in Poetry (v. CXIX, no. 5, February 2012).

Note: “One Whole Voice” is comprised of extracts from God at Every Gate, edited by IIya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler, to be published later this year by Tupelo Press.

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