In his fourth full-length collection, Robert Fanning
takes a dramatic leap into a liminal world. In poems both measured and
free, both cadenced and incantatory, we follow two marionettes?Professor
and Grief?who search for a life untethered and authentic. Crossing from
day into night, from wood into flesh, from wakefulness into dream, from
ice into thaw, Severance sings of a way?through the narrows of time and body?toward healing.