This Poor Book

In ‘This Poor Book’, completed just before her death, Howe 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. Howe interrogates the contradiction and violence of the twenty-first century, the misbegotten experiences that have given rise to a culture of authority and adulthood rather than one of innocence and childhood.

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In This Poor Book, completed just before her death, Howe 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. Howe interrogates the contradiction and violence of the twenty-first century, the misbegotten experiences that have given rise to a culture of authority and adulthood rather than one of innocence and childhood.

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Dimensions 20 × 13 cm
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Paperback

Pages

196

Language

English

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811.6 (edition:23)

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General – Trade / Code: K