{"title":"Fanny Howe","description":"FANNY HOWE is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. She has won a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an award from the Academy of Arts and Letters.","products":[{"product_id":"manimal-woe-paperback","title":"Manimal Woe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFanny Howe's \u003cem\u003eManimal Woe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003emaps the intersection between history and family as few books have. Through poetry, prose, and primary sources, Howe invites us on a journey with the spirit of her father, Civil Rights lawyer and professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, who died suddenly in 1967. The past, both personal and historical, is utterly present, yet just out of reach. From her ancestors' dark legacy as slave traders, to her father's work during the Civil Rights era, to her own interracial marriage and family, Fanny Howe delves deep into the heart of the mysterious and the mystical, and emerges with the questions that so rarely find their way to us. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369358983391,"sku":"9781734641653","price":22.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hbgYUHqtMv9781734641653.webp?v=1789140754"},{"product_id":"bronte-wilde-paperback","title":"Bronte Wilde - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn early novel by the distinguished American writer Fanny Howe, recently revised, \u003cem\u003eBronte Wilde\u003c\/em\u003e, set against the background of the emerging counter-culture of the early 1960s, is the tragic tale of a dispossessed young woman, in thrall to a childhood friend, who flees from the East to the West coast of the USA in a vain bid to reinvent herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFanny Howe, acclaimed as a poet and novelist, was born in Buffalo, NY, and brought up in Boston. For some years she was professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, and later visiting writer\/lecturer at various colleges in the USA and Ireland. She was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001 and 2005, and for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. She has won the National Poetry Foundation Award (twice) and the American Book Award for Fiction, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374009024735,"sku":"9781874400752","price":17.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IGkggiPOPq9781874400752.webp?v=1789168319"},{"product_id":"winter-sun-paperback","title":"Winter Sun - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful essays by Fanny Howe, a poet praised for her \"private quest through the metaphysical universe . . . the results are startling and honest\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFanny Howe's richly contemplative \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Sun \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of essays on childhood, language, and meaning by one of America's most original contemporary poets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, Howe shows the origins and requirements of \"a vocation that has no name.\" She finds proof of this in the lives of others--Jacques Lusseyran, who, though blind, wrote about his inner vision, surviving inside a concentration camp during World War II; the Scottish nun Sara Grant and Abbé Dubois, both of whom lived extensively in India where their vocation led them; the English novelists Antonia White and Emily Brontë; and the fifth-century philosopher and poet Bharthari. With interludes referring to her own place and situation, Howe makes this book into a Progress rather than a memoir. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Winter Sun \u003c\/i\u003edisplays the same power as found in her highly praised collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Wedding Dress\u003c\/i\u003e, a book described by James Carroll as an \"unflinching but exhilarating look at real religion, the American desolation, a woman's life, and, always, the redemption of literature.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376695705823,"sku":"9781555975203","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/beF3YXuBTu9781555975203.webp?v=1789221716"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-paperback-9","title":"Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Boston is the setting of some of the early poems, and Ireland, the birthplace of Howe's mother, is the home of \u003ci\u003eO'Clock\u003c\/i\u003e, a spiritually piquant series of short poems included in \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Zero built a nest \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e in my navel. Incurable \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Longing. Blood too- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From violent actions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's a nest belonging to one \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But zero uses it \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And its pleasure is its own \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-from \u003ci\u003eThe Quietist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFanny Howe's strangely hushed but busy landscape keeps leading us into it until we realize we're lost but wouldn't want to be anywhere else. This book is a strange joy.--John Ashbery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This complexly articulate writer uses poetry as a final resource. All the authority of her power becomes explicit in these poems, the musing, twisting thoughts and persons woven into a meld of great force and beauty. This is life if it could speak. Here it does.\"--Robert Creeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fanny Howe is a sly, wicked poet, always shifting between the social, the political, as well as the linguistic and literary concerns of an artist always writing from the cutting edge.\"--Quincy Troupe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fanny Howe is the closest thing to Emily Dickinson since Dickinson herself. These taut and sometimes witty poems are centripetal; they inscribe moments of a spiritual and psychological quest, word by packed word, image by edged image.\"--Albert Gelpi, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fanny Howe writes against the grain of language and the mind. These serial works, collected from a lifetime's steady contemplation, weave piece by piece a texture of such difficulty. Most religious poetry stands on faith, emotion, or certainty; Howe's work begins and ends with questions, and immense interiority in the shape of the physical world itself.\"--Norman Fischer, Co-abbot, San Francisco Zen Center\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit. Her work displays as well a political urgency, that is to say, a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis, the 'city on a hill.' Writes Emerson, 'The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.' Here's the luminous and incontrovertible proof.\" --Michael Palmer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lion Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378192974047,"sku":"9780520222632","price":29.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OI_xLXgPk39780520222632.webp?v=1789250816"},{"product_id":"love-and-i-poems-paperback","title":"Love and I: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe newest collection from \"one of America's most dazzling poets\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in transit even as they investigate the transitory, the cinematic poems in \u003ci\u003eLove and I\u003c\/i\u003e move like a handheld camera through the eternal, the minds of passengers, and the landscapes of Ireland and America. From this slight remove, Fanny Howe explores the edge of \"pure seeing\" and the worldly griefs she encounters there, cast in an otherworldly light. These poems layer pasture and tarmac, the skies above where airline passengers are compressed with their thoughts and the ground where miseries accumulate, alongside comedies, in the figures of children in a park. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLove can do little but walk with the person and suddenly vanish, and that recurrent abandonment makes it necessary for these poems to find a balance between seeing and believing. For Howe, that balance is found in the Word, spoken in language, in music, in and on the wind, as invisible and continuous lyric thinking heard by the thinker alone. These are poems animated by belief and unbelief. \u003ci\u003eLove and I\u003c\/i\u003e fulfills Howe's philosophy of Bewilderment.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378544869599,"sku":"9781644450048","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4Shc2mmNSj9781644450048.webp?v=1789258017"},{"product_id":"this-poor-book-a-poem-paperback","title":"This Poor Book: A Poem - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated poet Fanny Howe's final book, a kaleidoscopic recasting of her twenty-first-century poems \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor decades, Fanny Howe has been our great poet of spirit and conscience, dislocation and bewilderment. In \u003ci\u003eThis Poor Book\u003c\/i\u003e, completed just before her death, she has gathered a selection of poems and excerpts from the last thirty years, including new and revised poems, and has arranged them into an astonishing singular poem. Across this brilliant reconfiguration of her work, we follow the poet as seeker, both faithful and foolish, searching for language and existence beyond the machines of economy, judgment, and war. 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