Emma Howell left behind a body of poetry bright with darkness and joy
Emma Howell was born in Portland, Oregon, and died in 2001, at the age of twenty. She lived in Spain and Brazil and traveled widely in the world at large, forming many fast friendships with people of all ages, races, and creeds. She left behind a loving family, many close friends, and the magnificent, mature poems collected in this volume.
"In Slim Night of Recognition, Emma Howell's surprisingly mature vision is always deep and often dark: ' All I know I have said into an emptiness / to test the depth of it,' she wrote, even as she reached for transcendence. The poems approach the nearly unsayable through unexpected juxtapositions of imagery and sure but unpredictable music." Martha Collins, author of Some Things Words Can Do "How very gifted she was; the poems possess such an uncanny authority, swerve in such clean and unsettling ways, and hit such detailed, wonderfully unpredictable and always right-feeling notes, they're truly stirring. Astonishing to think she wrote them at so young an age, given their authority and patient, graceful movement. This is a beauty of a book and, though she is not here, it will keep her voice among us." Laurie Sheck, author of Black Series: Poems
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