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"doubt wisely;" john donne wrote, "in strange way / to stand inquiring right, is not to stray; / to sleep, or run wrong, is." doubt borders the path of belief, a tradition that continues in poetry to the present, and is at the center of fanny howe's poetic vision. born in in buffalo, howe grew up in
she asks in one poem – an errant but eager line. howe wants us to believe in something, because the act of belief is an emptying of self. her self emptied, she becomes pure witness, and that comes with a melancholy sense....
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