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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

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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

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

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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

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

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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

~Fanny Howe

Topics: Best Books Changed Children Coincidence Error Full Good Good Story Grew However Landscape Late Lifetime Novels Radically Reading Story Tell Try Up Victorian Weather World I Can

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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

Topics: Ballroom Bar Dancer East Glittering Nyc Over Stanley Street

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 15th, 1940

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