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Selected Poems
One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published...
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One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books, mostly with small presses, and this publication of her selected poems is a major event.
Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting, tiny margin in which movement out of exile is imaginable and perhaps possible. Her best poems are simultaneously investigations of that possibility and protests against the difficulty of salvation.
Boston is the setting of some of the early poems, and Ireland, the birthplace of Howe's mother, is the home of O'Clock, a spiritually piquant series of short poems included in Selected Poems.
The metaphysics and the physics of this world play off each other in these poems, and there is a toughness to Howe's unique, fertile nervousness of spirit. Her spare style makes a nest for the soul:
Zero built a nest
in my navel. Incurable
Longing. Blood too--
From violent actions
It's a nest belonging to one
But zero uses it
And its pleasure is its own
--from The Quietist
Author: Fanny Howe
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/11/2000
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.03h x 4.92w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780520222632
Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2000 pg. 435
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2000 pg. 71
New York Times 09/10/2000 pg. 26
About the Author
Fanny Howe is Professor of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and poetry (most recently, One Crossed Out, 1997).
Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting, tiny margin in which movement out of exile is imaginable and perhaps possible. Her best poems are simultaneously investigations of that possibility and protests against the difficulty of salvation.
Boston is the setting of some of the early poems, and Ireland, the birthplace of Howe's mother, is the home of O'Clock, a spiritually piquant series of short poems included in Selected Poems.
The metaphysics and the physics of this world play off each other in these poems, and there is a toughness to Howe's unique, fertile nervousness of spirit. Her spare style makes a nest for the soul:
Zero built a nest
in my navel. Incurable
Longing. Blood too--
From violent actions
It's a nest belonging to one
But zero uses it
And its pleasure is its own
--from The Quietist
Author: Fanny Howe
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/11/2000
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.03h x 4.92w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780520222632
Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2000 pg. 435
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2000 pg. 71
New York Times 09/10/2000 pg. 26
About the Author
Fanny Howe is Professor of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and poetry (most recently, One Crossed Out, 1997).
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