Howard

These pages are haunted by what is lost of intimate history, or health, the fragments rushing round us in golden fields. I love how they gather and scatter, gather and scatter, by the poet's hand. --Eleni Sikelianos. In this book we learn we are doing what we can / with the list we've been given. We witness "life itself" and we see that "to live" is "not bad." We catch emphatic glimpses to give our attention to, then for a while there is less to hold, then there is more, and then nothing again but bits and pieces. It is a lot like life. Sarah Boyer's found a way to tell us how we might approach the unapproachable, howard is a new way with a generous invitation, an offer to any one of us that says, here, look at this, you might as well do something like it with your life. --Dara Wier.