Fanny Howe
FANNY HOWE (1940-2025), acclaimed as a poet and novelist, was born in Buffalo, NY, and brought up in Boston. For some years she was professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, and later visiting writer/lecturer at various colleges in the USA and Ireland. She was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001 and 2005, and for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. She won the National Poetry Foundation Award (twice) and the American Book Award for Fiction, among others. Her early novel Bronte Wilde is published by our sister imprint Grand Iota.
She died in July 2025 and is much missed by this press.
EMERGENCE
This book, Fanny Howe's first for Reality Street since O'Clock (1995 – see below), collects early poems that are no longer in print, and presents them in new guises. The book is an important document showing the development of her current poetics and poetical thought.
"This complexly articulate poet uses poetry as a final resource. All the authority of her power becomes expicit in these poems, and musing, twisting thoughts and persons woven into a meld of great power and beauty." - Robert Creeley
"Fanny Howe's strangely hushed but busy landscape keeps leading us into it until we realize we're lost but wouldn't want to be anywhere else." - John Ashbery
Cover art by David Miller
2010, 978-1-874400-47-9, 64pp, O/P
O'CLOCK
To read Fanny Howe is to be given permission to step into another world. As when you were a child a sudden break in the hill following an invisible ravine brought you to a visionary place. This is a big book of suggestions, wise beyond measure, always surprising, widely ranging.
Reality Street was proud in 1995 to be Fanny Howe's first UK publisher. O'Clock was written during a sojourn by Fanny in Britain and Ireland.
1995, 1-874400-07-5, 104pp, O/P
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