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Beautiful essays by Fanny Howe, a poet praised for her private quest through the metaphysical universe . . . the results are startling and honest (The New York Times Book Review)

Fanny Howes richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a collection of essays on childhood, language, and meaning by one of Americas most original contemporary poets.

Through 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 othersJacques Lusseyran, who, though blind, wrote about his inner vision, surviving inside a concentration camp during World War II; the Scottish nun Sara Grant and Abb? Dubois, both of whom lived extensively in India where their vocation led them; the English novelists Antonia White and Emily Bront?; 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.

The Winter Sun displays the same power as found in her highly praised collection of essays, The Wedding Dress, a book described by James Carroll as an unflinching but exhilarating look at real religion, the American desolation, a womans life, and, always, the redemption of literature.

Author: Fanny Howe
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 03/03/2009
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.63w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781555975203
Language: English

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