Emergence

Fanny Howe's new book for Reality Street, her first since O'Clock (1995), collects early poems that are no longer in print, and presents them in new guises. The book will be an important document showing the development of her current poetics and poetical thought. Born in Buffalo, NY, and brought up in Boston, Fanny Howe attended Stanford University. She later worked in California and New York, and for some years as professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her recent collections of poetry include Selected Poems (2000), which won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001 and 2005. Prose fiction includes The Lives of a Spirit / Where Something Got Broken (2005) and Nod (1998) among many others.