34. Fanny Howe, "Catholic"

Another poet who gets to stretch out, in this poem-essay on being Catholic in the unique fashion that Howe is Catholic. It weaves in and out between prose and lineated prose. I find the text very rich, although not all the thoughts are expressed felicitously. Once again, I don't really care too much that the text might not be classifiable as a "poem" in the conventional sense. 8.