Nightboat Books (paperback, 2005)
Publisher Marketing: In this brilliant work that transcends genre--lyric essay, prose poem, philosophical fiction--Fanny Howe pursues her realization that keen metaphysical inquiry is radically essential to everyday life. Howe adds the stunning new coda Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken to her earlier work The Lives of a Spirit. The quotidian brushes up against the infinite in her ongoing effort to answer ancient questions: "Little word, who said me? Am I owned or free?"
