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Winter Sun

Winter Sun

Howe, Fanny

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Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1555975208
ISBN13: 9781555975203
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Mar 3 2009
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.63 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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 Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a collection of essays on childhood, language, and meaning by one of America's 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 others--Jacques Lusseyran, who, though blind, wrote about his inner vision, surviving inside a concentration camp during World War II; the Scottish nun Sara Grant and Abbé Dubois, both of whom lived extensively in India where their vocation led them; the English novelists Antonia White and Emily Brontë; 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 woman's life, and, always, the redemption of literature.

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