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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
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
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780520222632 |
| ISBN-10: | 0520222636 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Howe, Fanny |
| Redaktion: | Howe, Fanny |
| Hersteller: | University of California Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | De Gruyter, Genthiner Str. 13, D-10785 Berlin, orders-books@degruyter.com |
| Maße: | 204 x 125 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Fanny Howe |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.04.2000 |
| Gewicht: | 0,268 kg |
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