The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life

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 "Wo...