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On the Ground (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)

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Fanny Howe is a postmodernist poet with a following that reaches beyond readers of this form. Interestingly, she has moved from more commercial publishers toward independent presses. Her first works, short stories, poems, and novels, were published with Houghton and Avon, but she has moved toward collectives and respected small presses as her work has become more experimental. It is certainly the reverse of many career trajectories to go from Houghton and Avon to Sun & Moon Press, but Howe has the courage of her convictions and is writing now for a small audience of enlightened...

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