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The Vineyard
82 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Fanny Howe
91 books161 followersFanny Quincy Howe was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. She was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Howe wrote more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her major works include poetry such as One Crossed Out, Gone, and Second Childhood; the novels Nod, The Deep North, and Indivisible; and collected essays such as The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation.
Howe received praise and official recognition: she was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation. She also received the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of California. In addition, her Selected Poems received the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets for the most outstanding book of poetry published in 2000. She was a finalist for the 2015 International Booker Prize. She also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the Village Voice. She was professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Howe received praise and official recognition: she was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation. She also received the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of California. In addition, her Selected Poems received the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets for the most outstanding book of poetry published in 2000. She was a finalist for the 2015 International Booker Prize. She also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the Village Voice. She was professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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May 25, 2012
"God is already ahead and waiting: the future is full.
One steps timidly over the world; the other is companionable.
The house is there. The door is there. . . others. . .
But for you they make no sound when you're so far.
I know the bench is by the pond tomorrow
when I can follow the streets to it by heart.
Yes, streets. Yes, heart.
Nightwalk of faith, chromosomes live in the past.
The land is an incarnation
like a hand on a hand on an arm asking do you know me?"
The majority of this book is amazing and perfect like nothing else, but there are weaker sections, too. Still, I am so grateful this exists. Bought it two days ago, used, at Magus Books in the U-District, then read most of it at the bus stop, perched on the edge of I-5. "Radical mystical belief" says the back cover!
One steps timidly over the world; the other is companionable.
The house is there. The door is there. . . others. . .
But for you they make no sound when you're so far.
I know the bench is by the pond tomorrow
when I can follow the streets to it by heart.
Yes, streets. Yes, heart.
Nightwalk of faith, chromosomes live in the past.
The land is an incarnation
like a hand on a hand on an arm asking do you know me?"
The majority of this book is amazing and perfect like nothing else, but there are weaker sections, too. Still, I am so grateful this exists. Bought it two days ago, used, at Magus Books in the U-District, then read most of it at the bus stop, perched on the edge of I-5. "Radical mystical belief" says the back cover!
February 18, 2008
this is one of those books that just exists as itself. a reader cannot put expectations upon it, but rather experience it. the tones are very deep, the language spare. read patiently, in a quiet place.
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