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The Wedding Dress
The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life | Fanny Howe
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In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's role and the condition of doubt. In these original meditations on bewilderment, motherhood, imagination, and art-making, Howe takes on conventional systems of belief and argues for another, brave way of proceeding. In the essays "Immanence" and "Work and Love" and those on writers such as Carmelite nun Edith Stein, French mystic Simone Weil, Thomas Hardy, and Ilona Karmelwho were particularly affected by political, philosophical, and existential events in the twentieth century--she directly engages questions of race, gender, religion, faith, language, and political thought and, in doing so, expands the field of the literary essay. A richly evocative memoir, "Seeing Is Believing," situates Howe's own domestic and political life in Boston in the late '60s and early '70s within the broader movement for survival and social justice in the face of that city's racism. Whether discussing Weil, Stein, Meister Eckhart, Saint Teresa, Samuel Beckett, or Lady Wilde, Howe writes with consummate authority and grace, turning bewilderment into a lens and a light for finding our way.
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Kimmie
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Mehso-so

Kind of disappointed that this story became so Christian. I don't think it needed that angle and quite frankly I skimmed those sections

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JoeStalksBeck
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Sorry I'm blowing up the feed . I'll stop after this. I just want to say this is my dream wedding dress!📚📚📚📚📖😱😱😱😱

vivastory Too awesome 7y
RebeccasReading Wow! I love it! 7y
Alfoster Wowie!❤❤😀 7y
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Beckys_Books That's an amazing dress. One of a kind. 7y
Soubhiville Amazing!!! 7y
DeborahSmall ❤️❤️❤️ 7y
OrangeMooseReads One part of me says "beautiful" and another part says "those poor destroyed books" 7y
ValerieAndBooks I've also seen corsages (not IRL yet) made of flowers crafted from book pages! 7y
Lmstraubie That is really amazing! 7y
Ruri_kaichou That is gorgeous! I wonder if there's a video of her walking in it... 7y
MariaW 😍😍😍 7y
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