Fannin Street by Courtnee Howard

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"In her acclaimed collection of poetry, Cortnee Howard paints both vivid and etheral lyrical landscapes filled with parliament smoking strangers, dim-lit coffee shops and jails overrun with artists. Unafraid to digress into even the most wry and oblique of self-perceptions, Howard unites both the obscure and the ordinary with a sharp wit and gracious-yet pragmatic-use of metaphor. In many ways, Fannin Street succeeds where others do not, for it lends meaning in a sad-tragic world bristling with the ineffable and the significant. Howard possess a rare and disquieting brevity that is both subtle and sincere, composed and curious, provocative and profound. An impressive debut." -Robert Holt, The Seattle Review of Books --The Seattle Review of Books