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Fanny Howe

American Poet

Born: Oct 15, 1940

Alone Best Daily Reading Struggle Translation

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far. Fanny Howe

Life Generation Political Economics Big About Postwar Never Part Between Forces Inevitably Cultural Wonder American Big Part Childhood Wandering Children Stories Race Far Choosing Who Novels Lived Resisted

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. Fanny Howe

Me Anxiety Young Breath Translation Indians Russians Voice Poetry Over Since French Italians Lingers Very Moves Loved Formality Chinese Translator Measured Original Early

I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965. Fanny Howe

Dancer East Over Glittering Go-Go Ballroom Bar Stanley NYC Street

If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle. Fanny Howe

Hope Alone Daily Struggle Beauty Reading Difficulty Would Would-Be Record Someone Poems Like Familiar Place Notebook

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