On the Ground
By Fanny Howe
2004
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4.13
Average Rating
72
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A spiritually resonant and politically urgent new collection by the winner of the Lenore Marshall poetry prize My father was a soldier who was smaller than my son when he returned as a ghost. I begged him to stay with us but he said: "Not until you come to life." -from "[Untitled]" Fanny Howe's bold new collection responds to the contrast between American imperialist goals and the realities of life lived "on the ground." While our minds are preoccupied with the war games on television, we go on living among our ordinary joys and appetites. How can we live under these dissonant conditions and reconcile our existence with our longings?
Avg Rating
4.13
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53
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Author
Fanny Howe
Author · 27 books
Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. She was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.
