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	Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2015 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Rae Armantrout Price $28.00 Hardcover Special Order


	The Needle’s Eye: Passing through Youth by Fanny Howe Price $16.00 Paperback Special Order

Rae Armantrout and Fanny Howe

present

Partly:
New and Selected Poems, 2001-2015

and

The Needle's Eye:
Passing through Youth

with an introduction by CHRISTINA DAVIS

This event includes a book signing

Date

Nov

Friday
November 11, 2016
8:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store and Woodberry Poetry Room welcome Pulitzer Prize winner RAE ARMANTROUT and National Book Award finalist FANNY HOWE for a discussion of their latest poetry collections, Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2015 and The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth. They will be introduced by CHRISTINA DAVIS of the Woodberry Poetry Room.

About Partly

Rae Armantrout’s poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. These potent, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal her observant sensibility, lively intellect, and emotional complexity. This generous volume charts the evolution of Armantrout’s mature, stylistically distinct work. In addition to 25 new poems, there are selections from her books Up To Speed, Next Life, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning volume Versed, Money Shot, Just Saying, and Itself. Including some of her most brilliant pieces, Partly affirms Armantrout’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most innovative writers.

"These potent, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal Armantrout’s observant sensibility, lively intellect, and emotional complexity. Including some of her most brilliant pieces, this generous volume affirms Armantrout’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most innovative writers." —Publishers Weekly

About The Needle's Eye

Fanny Howe's The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth is a sequence of essays, short tales, and lyrics that are intertwined by an inner visual logic. The book contains filmic images that subvert the usual narrative chronology; it is focused on the theme of youth, doomed or saved. A fourteenth-century folktale of two boys who set out to find happiness, the story of Francis and Clare with their revolutionary visions, the Tsarnaev brothers of Boston, the poet George Oppen and the philosopher Simone Weil, two strangers who loved but remain strange, and the wild-child Brigid of Ireland: all these emerge "from multiple directions, but always finally from the eye at the end." As the philosopher Richard Kearney writes, "Howe's ruminations and aesthetics are those of the fragmentary, but are unified by world thinkers like Arendt, Weil, Agamben, and Yeats." The Needle's Eye is a brilliant and deeply felt exploration of faith and terror, coincidence and perception, by a literary artist of profound moral intelligence, "recognized as one of the country's least compromising yet most readable experimentalist writers" (The Boston Globe).

Update

Steph Burt, originally scheduled to join this event in conversation, is no longer able to attend.

Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe is the author of The Needle's Eye, Come and See, and The Winter Sun. Her most recent poetry collection, Second Childhood, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her fiction has been honored as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in New England.

Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout is Professor Emerita of writing in the literature department at the University of California at San Diego. Her previous poetry collections include Versed, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Next Life; Up to Speed; and Veil: New and Selected Poems. She has been published in many anthologies, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry and Scribner’s Best American Poetry of 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2011, and in such magazines as Harpers, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Boston Review. She has also received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation (2008), the Fund for Poetry (1999 and 1994) and the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (1989).

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Co-Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room

Woodberry Poetry Room

The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University is a special collections reading room and audio archive with a long and vital history. This tradition continues today with a rich assortment of poetry readings, seminars, and workshops. Learn more at hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.

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