His vivid poetry shocks us into thought by its sheer intelligence. This, her ninth book, is a summation of the theme of shamanism which has run through much of her poetry, painting, assemblages and performances. To read Fanny Howe is to be given permission to step into another world. This is a big book of suggestions, wise beyond measure, always surprising, widely ranging. People are symptoms of dreams.
Bombs are symptoms of rage.
Fanny Howe is a major American poet and novelist. RSE is proud to be her first UK publisher. Poet, novelist and essayist, she has published more than 20 books since 1965. By her ludic, subversive and innovative work, Brossard has influenced a whole generation on the questions of post-modernist and feminist writing. Typhon Dru consists of two sequences previously published only in limited artist s book editions.