The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555975208 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"The meaning of meaning" according to Pasiphae. In The Winter Sun, Fanny Howe offers a collection of essay, autobiography, meditation, biography and poetry, combined in exploration of the writing vocation. Her memories are beautiful to read, as are her gently nudging, never explicit examinations of how faith and language are inextricably woven into and of each . Five Stars Eileen O Malley Callahan Fanny Howe is wonderfully complicated, idiosyncratic, honest and fearless writer unafraid to write inside of and from a very deep and intensely felt place. I admire her courage. Excellent work.
FANNY HOWE is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. She has won a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an award from the Academy of Arts and Letters.
About the AuthorFANNY HOWE is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. She has won a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an award from the Academy of Arts and Letters.
Through a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, Howe shows the origins and requirements of "a vocation that has no name." She finds proof of this in the lives of othersJacques Lusseyran, who, though blind, wrote about his inner vision, surviving inside a concentration camp during World War II; the Scottish nun Sara Grant and Abbé Dubois, both of whom lived extensively in India where their vocation led them; the English novelists Antonia White and Emily Brontë; and the fifth-century philosopher and poet Bharthari. The Winter Sun displays the same power as found in her highly praised collection of essays, The Wedding Dress, a book described by James Carroll as an "unflinching but exhilarating look at real religion, the American desolation, a woman's li