Wednesday October 25th
6:30pm
6:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
Q&A
with the author to follow
✒Read a sample of her
work
One of the most widely read experimental poets
today and the author of over twenty books of
poetry, fiction, and essays, Fanny Howe hardly
requires introduction to the Bay Area poetry
community. Howe’s wiry lyrics construct
spaces of unsparing sincerity in which to examine
and interrogate the embodied qualities of moral
abstractions like mercy, guilt, and awe. Scouting
through the complex textures of Christian
symbolism, she weighs spiritual and political
ethics on the same scale, working through their
linguistic manifestations in a spirit of true
inquiry, an openness to revelation that always
remains unflinchingly open. With urgency and
subtlety, Howe practices the radicalism of
reflectiveness. The meaning of suffering, the
thickness of matter, and the prospects of getting
cozy in a vertiginous state of spiritual suspension
are the grounds of her explorations.
Fanny Howe has won awards from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry
Foundation, the California Council for the Arts,
and the Village Voice, among others, and has taught
creative writing at several universities, including
Tufts, Columbia, Yale, and MIT. She is Professor
Emerita of Writing and Literature at the University
of California at San Diego. Her most recent
publications include On the Ground (Graywolf,
2004), Gone (2003), The Lives of a Spirit /
Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (Nightboat
Books, 2005) and a collection of essays, The
Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life
(University of California Press, 2003).
Fanny Howe will be introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD Candidate, Natalia Cecire.
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Fanny Howe will be introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD Candidate, Natalia Cecire.
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*"One
of our most honored poets. . . . Howe returns with
a work as rich as it is unpredictable--and nicely
pared to the essence."--Library Journal