Fanny Howe (1940-)

A selective list of online literary criticism for poet Fanny Howe, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages


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Literary criticism

Bentley, Scott. "On the Day the Blood Let Fall: The Mastery of Mystery in Fanny Howe's [SIC] and Forged." Jacket Magazine 25 (Feb. 2004)

Hardy, Edmund. A review of "Fanny Howe’s 'Selected Poems,'" (Univ. of California Press, 2000). Reviewed in Terrible Work, 2004

Lamm, Kimberly. "The Clarity of Fanny Howe's Debut." Lamm discusses Fanny Howe's desire to express religious impulse through her writing. In Poetry and the New Materialities

Martin, Christopher. A review of Indivisible. Reviewed in Rain Taxi, Summer 2001

Volkman, Karen. "Fellow Travelers," a review of Gone. In Boston Review, Feb/March 2004

A well-done newspaper profile of Fanny Howe. Boston Globe, 3/7/04, by Joshua Glenn

An interview with Fanny Howe by Leonard Schwartz, at Cross Cultural Poetics [radio program] May, 2004

A brief review of Selected Poems, in the Village Voice, June 2000, reviewed by Ammiel Alcalay


Bibliography, texts

Publisher's web site for Fanny Howe's Selected Poems (Univ. of Calif. Press, 2000). Also, the first chapter is available online

Publisher's web site for Fanny Howe's The Wedding Dress (Univ. of Calif. Press, 2003)

Publisher's web site for Fanny Howe's Gone (Univ. of Calif Press, 2003)


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