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Fanny Howe

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Fanny Howe

Born October 15, 1940 · Buffalo, New York, USA (age 85)

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 famil…

Known For

OutremerOutremer · 2010
Outremer
2010
MovieAnimation
A video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.
Be AgainBe Again · 1994
Be Again
1994
MovieMystery
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.
Brigid of MurroeBrigid of Murroe · 2014
Brigid of Murroe
2014
Movie
"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."
What Nobody SawWhat Nobody Saw · 1990
What Nobody Saw
1990
Movie
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.
Simone Weil AvenueSimone Weil Avenue · 1992
Simone Weil Avenue
1992
MovieDocumentary
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.

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