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Franny Howe

Set in transit even as they investigate the transitory, the cinematic poems in Love and I move like a handheld camera through the eternal, the minds of passengers, and the landscapes of Ireland and America. From this slight remove, Fanny Howe explores the edge of “pure seeing” and the worldly griefs she encounters there, cast in an otherworldly light. These poems layer pasture and tarmac, the skies above where airline passengers are compressed with their thoughts, and the ground where miseries accumulate, alongside comedies, in the figures of children in a park. Love can do little but walk with the person and suddenly vanish, and that recurrent abandonment makes it necessary for these poems to find a balance between seeing and believing. For Howe, that balance is found in the Word, spoken in language, in music, in and on the wind, as invisible and continuous lyric thinking heard by the thinker alone. These are poems animated by belief and unbelief. Love and I fulfills Howe's philosophy of Bewilderment. Howe is in conversation with Martha Ronk, author of 11 books of poetry and one book of short stories, Glass Grapes.

Set in transit even as they investigate the transitory, the cinematic poems in Love and I move like a handheld camera through the eternal, the minds of passengers, and the landscapes of Ireland and America. From this slight remove, Fanny Howe explores the edge of “pure seeing” and the worldly griefs she encounters there, cast in an otherworldly light. These poems layer pasture and tarmac, the skies above where airline passengers are compressed with their thoughts, and the ground where miseries accumulate, alongside comedies, in the figures of children in a park. Love can do little but walk with the person and suddenly vanish, and that recurrent abandonment makes it necessary for these poems to find a balance between seeing and believing. For Howe, that balance is found in the Word, spoken in language, in music, in and on the wind, as invisible and continuous lyric thinking heard by the thinker alone. These are poems animated by belief and unbelief. Love and I fulfills Howe's philosophy of Bewilderment. Howe is in conversation with Martha Ronk, author of 11 books of poetry and one book of short stories, Glass Grapes.

Franny Howe, "LOVE AND I" w/ Martha Ronk

"For my sisters who remember everything differently..."LINKS:Buy "Displeasures of the Table" here: http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Martha-Ronk-Displeasures-of-the-Table-&amp;BookID=44My SVA evening on Jan 9th: http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/robyn-oneil-lecture-and-screeningInfo about my book signing at Susan Inglett Gallery on Jan 13th: http://www.inglettgallery.comTrailer for my film WE, THE MASSES: https://vimeo.com/26486761Malvern Books: http://malvernbooks.comStephanie Goehring: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring

"For my sisters who remember everything differently..." LINKS: Buy "Displeasures of the Table" here: <a href="http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Martha-Ronk-Displeasures-of-the-Table-&amp;BookID=44" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Martha-Ronk-Displeasures-of-the-Table-&amp;BookID=44</a> My SVA evening on Jan 9th: <a href="http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/robyn-oneil-lecture-and-screening" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/robyn-oneil-lecture-and-screening</a> Info about my book signing at Susan Inglett Gallery on Jan 13th: <a href="http://www.inglettgallery.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.inglettgallery.com</a> Trailer for my film WE, THE MASSES: <a href="https://vimeo.com/26486761" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/26486761</a> Malvern Books: <a href="http://malvernbooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://malvernbooks.com</a> Stephanie Goehring: <a href="https://twitter.com/eselgoehring" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/eselgoehring</a>

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