Writing

Fanny Howe

Born

1940-10-15 (86)

Place of birth

Buffalo, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

11 titles

Official site

Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, filmmaker and short story writer. She is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and studied at Stanford University. “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 explained in a 2004 interview with the Kenyon Review. Indeed, more than a subject or theme, the process of recording experience is central to Howe’s poetry. Her work explores grammatical possibilities, and its rhythms are generated from associative images and sounds. …

Known for

This experimental film by Fanny Howe and her son Maceo Senna re uses images form the film "Man Follows Birds" (1975) by Birds" (1975) by

Embryonic

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A video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.

Outremer

2010

Three figures - man, woman, child - roam the grounds of a State Mental Hospital, a kind of hell on earth, looking for each other or for a supreme witness to their loneliness. A visual poem with voices off.

What Nobody Saw

1990

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning remembering Samuel Beckett. The text echoes the Purgatory.

Be Again

1994

"There were several Brigids by the time she was ten and ready to leave Murroe. They multiplied through the shafts of air, one going one way another going another here and there around the countryside."

Brigid of Murroe

2014

The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived and worked during that time. It was 1942-43.

Simone Weil Avenue

1992

Film credits