• “There's an unexpected intimacy... a sense of the physicality of life, of death and of endurance, which in the end is all we have. Howell gets at all of this with precision, pitiless but not unfeeling, knee-deep, waist-deep in the world.”

    THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

  • "With striking passion, revelatory insight, eerie visionary turn-abouts, haunting threads of hymnology, and a giant gift of precision and sensitive care, Rebecca Gayle Howell creates an unforgettably potent world in her poems - labor so often lived and borne, so rarely described."

    NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

  • "What makes this collection deeply compelling is its unrelenting use of narrative to sustain a totalising image of a plausible American apocalypse, such that each prose poem becomes an indispensable thread in a collection which is biblical in its scope."

    POETRY LONDON

  • "Rebecca Gayle Howell has pressed her face to the face of the actual animal world. She remembers everything we have forgotten. Read this! It's not too late. We can start over from right here and right now.”

    MARIE HOWE

  • "Every once in awhile, poetry needs to say to novels: I’ve been around longer, and I can tell stories better. Howell’s the kind of poet who can announce the apocalypse in a whisper."

    THE MILLIONS

  • “In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize how deeply I was handing everything over.”

    NIKKY FINNEY

  • “Explicitly, these poems charge us to observe the natural world, but implicitly, they urge us to question our perceptual structures, deconstructing the power hierarchies we impose and dispelling the infallibility of the systems we use to organize our understanding of it.”

    THE KENYON REVIEW

  • "Howell is our twenty-first century Virgil, waving “the flag of warning,” on the precipice of a ruined world. Our world. The clear-eyed courage at work here reminds me of the honest power of C.D. Wright. She would recognize in Howell a sister poet. This is a poetic work for our moment and the time is now."

    CAROLYN FORCHÉ

OUT NOW

EL INTERIOR DE LA BALLENA
THE BELLY OF THE WHALE

The bilingual edition of Claudia Prado’s acclaimed novel-in-verse of Patagonia

Translated by Rebecca Gayle Howell

“I was so mesmerized
I read the book in one sitting.” 

—Ruben Quesada
Ed. Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry