“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.
