From chicagotribune.com:
Fanny Howe wins $100,000 poetry prize Tribune newspapers April 16,
2009Fanny Howe has been announced as the winner of the $100,000 Ruth
Lilly
Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.
The Chicago-based Poetry Foundation, which presents the award, said Tuesday
that Howe's poetry "can be elusive and hermetic, and then abruptly and
devastatingly candid; it is marked by the pressures of history and culture,
yet [is] defiantly, transcendently lyrical."
In a 2004 interview with the Kenyon Review, Howe said this about her work:
"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."
Howe, 68, lives on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Her books include "On the
Ground," "The Lyrics" and "Gone."
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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