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Fanny Howe Estados Unidos 1940-   “Why do we always think history is full of stops and starts? The future is only the past turned around to look at itself.”

Hoy, que se celebra el Día Mundial de la Poesía, quiero recomendar a una autora de una obra inmensa. Su mirada abarca desde lo más sencillo a la referencia académica más erudita, invitando a que busquemos siempre nuevos libros. Se trata de Fanny Howe (Estados Unidos, 1940).
Fanny Howe es hermana de otra gran escritora, Susan Howe (de quien recomiendo muchísimo su  libro My Emily Dickinson), y madre de una narradora maravillosa, Danzy Senna (de quien les recomiendo su genial libro de cuentos You are free).
Pero volvamos a Fanny Howe. Quien ha escrito novelas (algunas muy comerciales que publicó bajo seudónimo)cuentos, poemas y ensayos. Mis favoritos: The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, The Lyrics, Gone , Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken y, su más reciente, Love and I (2019).
También, cinco de sus novelas se publicaron en un solo volumen de título Radical Love.
Fanny Howe se acerca a la palabra en su materialidad así como también explora cuestiones filosóficas y religiosas en sus poemas. La naturaleza del tiempo, la idea de un futuro, así como también la infancia y el rol del artista y la creación, entre muchas otras cosas.
Les comparto algunas citas:
“Borders become clusters of confusion when there is a good-bye. Even the uninvolved passersby, the cars, birds, and wind are momentarily disturbed and seem to falter, and switch direction. Dogs pause and look around.” (1/2)
(2/2) “A good-bye generates a moment of chaos in the immediate environment: those saying good-bye sense the trap in which they are forever held, the jet of light that produces their flesh for that second, and the fact that there is no backward or forward in time.”
“Why do we always think history is full of stops and starts? The future is only the past turned around to look at itself.”
“The sonnet is like a party where you can leave when you have had enough, with a summary statement at the door of air. You are not afraid of your own absence; indeed, you enjoy providing closure. And then you can remake the whole event as you drive off alone into the night.”
People sometimes select and seduce someone who reminds them of someone else, so that they can damage the person who is not the original. Just in case the original decides to come back an love them.”
“Humans take pictures of animals in order to remember how to be moral.”
“Being forsaken by someone is like walking into a basement, as I once did, in a building devoted to science, and coming upon a room full of corpses with their knees pointing up to the ceiling under their sheets, and wondering if this was the peace you were seeking.”
“Some who never feel loved keep traveling/ They sense that an airplane will change their fate/By separating them from gravity.”
“The tinier the beauty the better/ A bird’s cherry-pit heart pulsed between two bones.”
“And the day has only four words we can believe.”
 

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