At the library I found several books by Fanny Howe. I read about a third of "In the Middle of Nowhere," a good straightforward novel published in 1984. "The Lives of the Spirit": I'm not sure what this book is. Prose poems, short stories? "The Deep North" looks promising. "The Quietist" has some funky illustrations, pencil drawings by Italo Scanga, and contains much material missing from the Selected Poems. The version that appears there seems sanitized, almost sterile in comparison. She's gotten rid of all the prose bit, for one. The 1992 collection "The End" contains the amazing poem "Veteran" and others I haven't got to yet. The morning was spent reading not half-bad dissertation on Mexican poetry, and clicking every every hour or so on equanimity to see if there were any new posts.

Haircut at the student union, photographed and interviewed by student reporter, as though college professor getting haircut were big news. "Well, I was walking by after lunch, and needed a haircut..."