Selected Poems

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-520-22263-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 213 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

Reihe: New California Poetry

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howe, Fanny

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction to the World
Q
The Nursery
Robeson Street
Joy Had I Known
Veteran
Close Up
Conclusively
Goodbye, Post Office Square
Lines out to Silence
Poem from a Single Pallet
The Vineyard
In the Spirit There Are No Accidents
The Sea-Garden
The Quietist
O'Clock

Index of First Lines

Über Autor(innen)

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).