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The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life

The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life

Howe, Fanny

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Letters & EssaysFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0520238400
ISBN13: 9780520238404
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 25 2003
Pages: 181
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's role and the condition of doubt. In these original meditations on bewilderment, motherhood, imagination, and art-making, Howe takes on conventional systems of belief and argues for another, brave way of proceeding. In the essays Immanence and Work and Love and those on writers such as Carmelite nun Edith Stein, French mystic Simone Weil, Thomas Hardy, and Ilona Karmel--who were particularly affected by political, philosophical, and existential events in the twentieth century--she directly engages questions of race, gender, religion, faith, language, and political thought and, in doing so, expands the field of the literary essay. A richly evocative memoir, Seeing Is Believing, situates Howe's own domestic and political life in Boston in the late '60s and early '70s within the broader movement for survival and social justice in the face of that city's racism.

Whether discussing Weil, Stein, Meister Eckhart, Saint Teresa, Samuel Beckett, or Lady Wilde, Howe writes with consummate authority and grace, turning bewilderment into a lens and a light for finding our way.

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