That's great news, Andrew. The kind I dont seem to discover unless
someone like you lets me know. I like both Howes, although theyre
very different in their specific poetics....
Doug
On 16-Apr-09, at 5:20 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> 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."
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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