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The conclusion of a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transience, resistance, and poverty.First published by Semiotexte in 2001, Indivisible concludes a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transience, wonder, resistance, and poverty. Depicting the tempestuous multiracial world of artists and activists who lived in working-class Boston during the 1960s, Indivisible begins when its narrator, Henny, locks her husband in a closet so that she might better discuss things with God. On the verge of a religious conversion, Henny attempts to make peace with the dead by telling their stories.

A meditation on time, violence, and chance by "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine)Fanny Howe's The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth is a sequence of essays, shor

The new poetry collection by Fanny Howe, whose “body of work seems larger, stranger, and more permanent with each new book she publishes” (Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize citation)People want to be poets for

“We cannot do without Fanny Howe.” —Ange Mlinko, The NationHere a gun might go off, There perhaps a broom would brush away the sticks of spring. It was not your fault where you were dropped Or where y

Through a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, she shows the origins and requirements of "a vocation that has no name." She finds proof of this in the

Who was that stranger beside me?Please forgive me for insistingIt must have been a dream.No one could survive such happiness. --from "[Untitled]"The Lyrics records the days o

Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe's novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters wrestle wit

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A spiritually resonant and politically urgent new collection by the winner of the Lenore Marshall poetry prizeMy father was a soldierwho was smaller than my sonwhen he returned as a ghost.I begged him

"Fanny Howe draws the reader into her meditations on spiritual illuminations with a simplicity and an originality of vision and style that I find in no other contemporary work dealing with mysticism."

"With extraordinary self-scrutiny and complexity--unmatchable musical poise and beauty--Fanny Howe examines our relationship with 'other' worlds, purgatories of various kinds: genetic, historical, the

Fiction. Largely set in Boston, Fanny Howe's ECONOMICS examines with an unwavering eye the necessary errors of the 1960s liberalism and consequences of cold war politics. A white liberal couple adopts

This odd, transcendent and triumphant novel completes Howe's series ofquasi-autobiographical, radically philosophical fictions begun in 1972.

"Fanny 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"This complexly

Fanny Howe's new collection One Crossed Out, presents a portrait painted from the inside of the life of a homeless woman. The poems speak in the voice of May, the girl crossed out, the bad girl, the m

Fanny Howe, acclaimed poet and winner the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, explores the fears and freedoms of single motherhood in this newly reprinted collection, featuring cover art by her son, Ma

A woman travels among geographies both real and imagined looking for her daughter.