Second Childhood by Fanny Howe
Cynthia Cruz reviews Fanny Howe's Second Childhood today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Lydia Heberling is 26, unemployed, and speaks conversational Thai. Although she has a degree in literature and English education, she's really hoping to just teach swim lessons and write all summer. She has been published in the San Diego Natural History Museum's 2009-2010 annual report and the Point Loma Nazarene University Alumni Magazine. She's working on a novel that her friends tells her she needs to finish and publish while she's "still relevant."
I Did Not Vanish: On Writing
But writing poems allows me mastery over a miniature universe. For those moments or hours, I am God of my kingdom. No one tells me how things go. No one can argue against me when I’m writing poems. When I am writing, I get to speak.
On Reading
So deep into this other world do I drop, I no longer notice, nor do I care, what’s happening outside the book, in the “real” world. Like a drug, the book seduces me. I can’t resist.
Across the Land and the Water by W. G. Sebald
In Sebald’s Across the Land and Water, the theme is clear. In these collections, we have named men and women (names) traveling, staying in hotels, unanchored, exiled and lost, seemingly forever, from their home.