“[The Winter Sun]
is full of wondering, noticing and empathetic efforts to weave connections
between events and individuals and the cultures they inhabit.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Howe’s “Notes on a Vocation” clarifies the role of the
poet in an age of widespread scientism that peremptorily decides what questions
are worth asking and how best to answer them.”
—THE NATION
“Fanny Howe is a true visionary who asks the right
questions. As these awful times bear themselves out politically, we come to
need her exemplary art all the more; she has been a faithful and unflinching
voice through all these years of unholy turmoil. Her meditative new book, The Winter Sun, is a brave and original
work.”
—PETER GIZZI
“Howe’s voice is strong, clear and reasoned; she draws
from a fascinating wealth of experience, thought and analysis, and her writing
rewards close reading.”
—NEWPAGES.COM
“Meandering through dream and recollection, at times
breaking without warning into song, Howe’s notes are ecstatic rather than
linear, in touch, like Emily Bronte… with the brilliant wildness of childhood….
At work in these pages is a skeptical intellect of such shattering intensity
that it threatens to extinguish exuberance and correspondence in mockery and
disbelief…. there is terrific darkness in this memoir.”
