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Fanny Howe


Born
in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
October 15, 1940

Died
July 08, 2025

Genre
Poetry


Fanny 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 mo ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 3,867 ratings · 503 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
The Wedding Dress: Meditati...
4.33 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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Second Childhood: Poems
3.32 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Selected Poems
4.32 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Indivisible
4.26 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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The Winter Sun: Notes on a ...
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Love and I: Poems
3.72 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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The Needle's Eye
4.03 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Gone
4.18 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Night Philosophy
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Radical Love: Five Novels
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“Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine”
― Fanny Howe
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“The wildness of the flower is all in the tone”
― Fanny Howe
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“The ring comes whenever it will
because it's dark
where the mountains mother

and being stuck in one spot
is something to ring bells about”
― Fanny Howe
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