This Poor Book - A Poem Abi Maxwell Seeing their children come of

Seeing their children come of age

From her experience

For zestier fare

Does falling in love mean eviscerating yourself

Thus begins an unbearably tense

This Poor Book - A Poem Abi Maxwell Seeing their children come ofBy: Fanny Howe Published by Graywolf Press, 2026 05 05 Celebrated poet Fanny Howes final book, a kaleidoscopic recasting of her twenty first century poems 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